A Chemical Preventive Force Wanted
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Adulteration, Nutrition, Public Health, Analytical Chemistry |
Institutions mentioned: | Lancet—Analytical Sanitary Commission |
Publications cited: | Liverpool Journal |
Reports that the Lancet's exposure of the 'horrid adulterations of tea' has prompted a decline in tea-drinking and the 'totality of teetotalism'. Wishes the government could have provided against' this 'state of things' and argues that adulteration could be checked by hiring 'a Chemical Officer, to be employed [by custom houses] as a Preventive against that sort of smuggling by which our foods and medicines are poisoned and polluted'. |
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