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Swindled

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by Bee Wilson


  Milk: The Deadly Poison (Cohen), 155

  Milk and Honey (Smith), 1

  Milk Trade in New York and Vicinity, The (Mullaly), 156

  Miller, Henry, 127

  mint salad, lead in, 20

  Miraculin, 245, 251

  Mitchell, John, 111, 117–19

  Mixed Fruit Tropic Ora, 268

  mock foods, 218–20. See also synthetic food

  Modern Cookery, 25

  Monsanto, 234, 304

  More Kitchen Front Recipes (Heath), 220

  Moss, Kate, 311

  MSG, 263

  Mueller, Sebastian, 206

  Mullaly, John, 156, 159–60

  Muntz, George, 136–37, 143

  mustard: Accum on the adulteration of, 3; Colman’s, 138; government, proposal for, 138–39; Hassall’s inability to find unadulterated, 128, 138; as a narcotic, American temperance movement’s view of, 165; testing for the purity of, 118

  Nader, Ralph, 261–63, 324

  Naderphobia, 261

  Nader’s Health Research Group, 263–64

  Nader’s Raiders, 262–63

  Napoleonic Wars, 36

  Napoleon I (emperor of France), 111, 200

  Napoleon III (emperor of France), 169

  narangin, 245

  National Association of Canners and Packers, 203

  National Cancer Institute, 246–47

  National Consumer’s League, 189

  National Dairy Council, 155

  National Food and Medicine Inspection Bureau (China), 314–15, 318

  National Milk Producers, 227

  natrometer, Pesier’s, 118

  natural food, flavour industry’s contempt for, 254–56

  Nature of Bread Honestly and Dishonestly Made, The (Manning), 80

  Neill, Charles P., 198–99

  Nepal, food adulteration rate in, 318

  Nestlé, 316

  Nestle, Marion, 167–68, 241, 308, 326

  Neville, Ella Hoes, 166

  New Foods Panel (U.S.), 234–35, 239, 241

  New Patriotic Imperial and National Light and Heat Company, 8

  New York City: London, comparison to, 156; pasteurized milk sold at low-cost depots in, 163; the swill milk scandal, 154–63; trans fats banned from restaurants in, 300

  New York Evening Post: complaints about the “poison squad” experiments, 187; rhyme on food adulteration, 152

  New York Times: business support for the Pure Food law, 203; on the butter-margarine conflict, 172; Kessler on the new labelling system, 276; swill milk, report on, 156, 159–61

  New Zealand, butcher’s false claim of “certified organic” in, 311

  Nicholson, William, 11, 41

  Nixon, Philip, 307

  Nixon, Richard, 234

  Norda International, 230, 254

  Normandy, Alphonse, 110

  Northampton Herald, poisoning reported in, 115

  NutraSweet, 245–47

  Nutrition Education, study of iron deficiency in children, 234

  nutritionists, as scaremongers, 299

  Nutrition Labelling and Education Act, 274

  oatmeal, adulterated, 107

  oenology, 60–61

  Offa (Saxon king), 65

  oleomargarine. See margarine

  Oleomargarine Act of 1886, 173–74, 222

  olive oil, detecting fraud in, 290

  Oliver, Jamie, 220, 270

  olives, labelling of, 278–79

  Olney, John, 244

  100 000 000 Guinea Pigs (Kallet and Schlink), 224–25, 325

  orange juice, detecting adulteration in, 291

  oranges, reduced nutrients in, 303–4

  Orfila, Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure, 55

  organic food: genetically modified crops as threat to, 304; health benefits of, 308; pesticide residues avoided in, 305, 308; problems of, 309–10; standards for, disagreements over and dilution of, 310–11; swindles and free range fraud associated with, 311–12

  organoleptic approach to food testing, 16–17, 289

  orthorexia, 309–10

  Orwell, George, 213–14, 266, 285

  O’Shaughnessy, W. B., 113–14, 126

  Our Grandmothers’ Recipes (Percy), 219

  Paddock, Algernon S., 153, 178

  Pakistan: Basmati rice grown in, 295 (see also Basmati rice); risk from iodine deficiency in, 235

  Palmer, Thomas W., 169, 172–73

  Paltrow, Gwyneth, 311

  Papworth, John, 41

  Paracelsus, xi

  Parker, Robert, 62, 89

  Parmentier, Antoine-Augustin, 44, 73

  pasta, adulteration of durum wheat, 292

  Pasteur, Louis, 60

  Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Department of Commerce, 202

  Patten, Marguerite, 222

  Peanut Spred, 223

  pear drops, 252

  pearnana flavour, 249

  Peck, William, 14

  pectin, 223

  Penrose, John, 57

  pepper: adulteration of, 31; prestige and use of, 90; purchase of adulterated, 132–33

  pepperers, guild of, 90–91

  Percy, Lady Algernon, 219

  perfume industry, 250

  Périgord truffles, 282–83

  Pesier natrometer, 118

  pesticides: GM farming and, 305; residues in food, dangers of, 307–8; squeamishness about aesthetic adulteration and increased usage of, 307

  Phillips, Rod, 47

  Philosophical Magazine, solving the mystery of blue tea, 18

  phlogiston, 15–16

  phylloxera, 60

  pickles, copper used in making, 25–26

  Piers Plowman (Langland), 85–86

  pigs, Corsican, 285–86

  pigweed, 75–76

  Pillsbury Farina, 238

  Pitt, William, the Elder, 79

  Pitt, William, the Younger, 14, 36

  Planck, Nina, 310

  Platt, Sir Hugh, 59, 74–75

  Pliny the Elder, 50–51, 90

  poison, dosage and, xi

  Poison Detected or Frightful Truths (Markham), 79–80, 82, 85

  “poison squad,” Wiley’s experiments on the, 183–89

  Poitou, colic of, 52–53

  polariscope, 176

  polymerase chain reaction (PCR), 293–94

  poor, the: discovery of hunger in the U.S. among, 234; food adulteration aimed at, 101–7; health of, impact of adulterated food on the, 106–7; infant mortality among, 158; margarine associated with, 169

  Popular Science Monthly, Wiley on products from corn, 177

  Postgate, John, 136, 143

  potatoes: natural poisons in, 269–70; survey of using DNA analysis, 291–92

  powdered substitute foods, 220

  Practical Treatise on Gas-Light (Accum), 8–9

  preservatives: benzoates, 189, 204–9; new and old-fashioned, distinction between, 180–81; specious logic supporting, 270; Wiley’s campaign against, 181–89

  processed foods: additives in, 229–33; “golden age” of in the United States, 228; Red Dyes no. 2 and 40 in, 264–65. See also synthetic food

  processing aids, 301–2

  prosecutions: of Accum, 40–42; for beer adulteration, 37–38; for tea adulteration, 32–33

  Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), 285

  protected origin foods, 60–62, 283–86

  Prussia, law against food fraud, 111

  public health: infant mortality and quality of milk, connection between, 156, 158; the Lancet’s campaign for, 124–32; shifting opinion in Victorian Britain regarding, 128–29

  Public Health Act of 1875 (Britain), 200

  publicity: impact of anti-adulteration, 1–6, 115–17; The Jungle, impact of, 190–99; the Lancet’s public health campaign, 124–32; transforming bad into good, commerce based on, 141–45. See also advertising and advertisers

  Punch: on the demon grocer, 96–97; on Hassall’s microscopical analysis of London water, 130–31; on t
he lozenge scandal, 140

  Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 (U.S.), 154, 189–90, 201–3, 206, 223, 305

  Pure Food Company, The, 149–50, 310

  pure food movement: Heinz as supporter of, 206–7; moral absolutism of, 165–67; temperance movement, association with, 165; Wiley and, 179 (see also Wiley, Harvey Washington)

  purity: of American way of life, the swill milk scandal and erosion of faith in, 155; as approach to food swindling, strength and weakness of, 323–24; consumer awareness regarding, 204; organic food and the search for, 309–10 (see also organic food); preservatives vs. sugar and the problem of, 209; the Pure Food and Drugs Act used as a warranty for, 202–4 (see also Heinz tomato ketchup); replacement of the goal of unadulterated food by, 147, 149–51; science and industrial packaged goods in response to calls for, 150–51; Wiley’s definition of, 201–2

  Pyke, Magnus, 250

  Quaker Oats, 226

  quality of food: adulteration (see adulteration); bread vs. wine over time, opposing trajectories of, 46–49 (see also bread; wine); deterioration of American after the Civil War, 152–53; government regulation and, Britain and France compared regarding, 110–15; improvement in British beginning in the 1880s, 146–47; medieval quality controls, 89–93; purity as a marketing device, 143–45, 202–4 (see also Heinz tomato ketchup); purity as the new goal, 147, 149–51 (see also pure food movement; purity); testing for (see testing of food); trade guilds and, 85–89

  Quantitative Ingredient Declarations (QUIDs), 276

  Quebec, law regarding uncolored margarine in, 168

  Raffald, Elizabeth, 25–26

  Ralston-Purina Company, 234

  Ramazzini Foundation, 246

  raspberries: fl avourists’ fixation on, 255–56; trifle with or without real, 268–69

  Redding, Cyrus, 59, 62, 85

  Red Dyes no. 2 and 40, 264–65

  Reeve, Ella, 198

  Reimer, Karl, 259

  retsina, 51

  Revalenta Arabica, 134–36

  Reynolds, James Bronson, 198–99

  Reynolds, John Hamilton, 42

  rice: Basmati (See Basmati rice); golden, 304

  Richard II (king of England), 66

  Richard I (king of England), 65

  Robinson, James, 133

  Robinson, Jancis, 62

  Rome, wines in ancient, 51–52

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 224

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 224–25

  Roosevelt, Theodore: beef and the Beef Trust, concerns regarding, 195–97; Beveridge bill, opinion of, 200; cartoon depiction of, 198; impact of The Jungle on, 195–97; Sinclair and, 197–200; Wiley and, 189, 210–11

  Royal Institution, 40–41

  Rumford, Count Benjamin Thompson, 23–24, 43

  Rumohr, Karl Friedrich, 11

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 246–47

  Russell, Charles Edward, 196

  Russia, famine “breads” in, 75–76

  Sabine, R. H., 254

  saccharin: banning of, 245; cyclamate, compared to, 243; Wiley vs. Roosevelt regarding, 211

  Sachs, Jeffrey, 322

  “safe and suitable” ingredients, 233

  saffron, 281–82

  Sainsbury’s, 247

  Salad Bouquet, 223

  Sale of Food and Drugs Act of 1875, 146

  salicylic acid, 180

  salt, fortified with iodine, 235

  scallops, injected with water, 288

  scaremongering. See food frauds/panics/ scares

  Schlatter, James, 244

  Schlink, F. J., 224–25

  Schlosser, Eric, 252–53, 261

  Scholefield, William, 136–37, 139, 143

  Scotland, Ministry of Health, vitamin poisoning of children addressed by, 237

  Searle, G. B., 243–46

  seawater, as an additive to wine, 51

  seller-beware, let the: in contemporary food culture, 95–96; dangers of, 150–51; replacement of buyer beware in the Adulteration Act of 1860, 137

  Sicilian wine, 56

  Silliman, Benjamin, 14

  Simmonds, Peter L., 109

  Sinclair, Upton: Beveridge bill, opinion of, 200; The Jungle, 190–99, 305, 324; Nader’s self-comparison to, 261; Roosevelt and, 197–200

  Singer, Peter, 310

  slimming foods: aspartame, 244–47; cyclamates as, 242–44; obesity and, 242; saccharine, 211, 243; transformation of ersatz foods into consumer desirables, 247–48

  sloe leaves, 31–32

  Smart, Charles, 164

  Smith, Andrew, 208

  Smith, James, 1

  Smollett, Tobias, 5, 84

  snoek, 221

  Soil Association, 308, 310

  Somers, Ira, 229, 231

  “Song Against Grocers” (Chesterton), 97–98, 147

  “Song of the Pizen Squad” (Gillian), 185

  soup making, 21

  South Africa, adulteration by a wine producer in, 62–63

  Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, 130–31

  Spain, protected origin system in, 285

  Spanish-American War of 1898, 181–82

  spectroscopy, 291

  Spencer, Colin, 219, 221

  Spice & Flavour, 257–58

  spices: adulteration of, 99, 164; cinnamon, adulteration of, 128, 164; pepper, 31, 90, 132–33; saffron, 281–82; spicers and garblers, enforcement of standards by, 90–93

  spirits: gin, 58–59; whiskey rectifiers and the Pure Food bill, 203

  Spurlock, Morgan, 183

  Sri Lanka, food adulteration rate in, 318–19

  Starbucks, cut backs in trans fats, 300

  Stevenson & Howell, 248–49

  Stieb, Ernst, xiii

  Straus, Nathan, 163

  strawberry milk shake, artificial vs. natural ingredients of, 252–53

  sucralose, 247

  Sudan 1 affair, 299

  sugar: adulteration of in the United States, 164; brown, Hassall’s discovery of mites in, 123–24; health risks of eating too much, 209–10; in ketchup, 204, 209; sand added to, 98–99, 123; Wiley’s analyses of, 176–78

  Sullivan, Louis, 274

  Sun, the, on the Surrey Curry scandal, 279

  SunnyFranks frankfurters, 237

  Supersize Me, 183

  Supreme Court, U.S., imitation food, rulings regarding, 227–28

  Surrey Curry scandal, 279

  Surrey Institution, 12

  sweeteners: aspartame, 244–47; cyclamate, 242–44; Miraculin, 245, 251; narangin, 245; saccharin, 211, 243, 245; sucralose, 247; sugar (see sugar)

  Sweet’N Low, 245

  sweets (candy, confections, and sweetmeats): artificial flavours in, 251–52; color adulteration, 27–28, 113–14; poisonings from, 28, 115; regulation and quality of, Britain and France compared regarding, 113–15

  swindling and swindlers: Accum as, 40–45; Accum’s examples of, 27–28, 30–33; commercial advantage from awareness of, 141–45; common experience of, xi; contemporary, 272–73; deception by flavourists, 258–61; fighting, approaches to, 322–27; food fortification as, 237; food technology as enabling, 262; gourmet foods and, 280–86; governments’ concerns regarding, xiii; greed as the motivation for, xii–xiii, 4, 27, 85–86, 164, 316, 322; hucksters, hawkers, and costermongers, 102–6; labelling as answer to (see labelling); legalized consumer fraud, 266–71; low bid for supplying institutional food and, 107; margarine as, 169, 172; the medieval food police as guards against, 89–93; organic food and, 311–12; publicity, impact of, 116–17; tea, adulteration of, 31–33; tolerance of in Britain, 107–15 (see also buyer beware, let the; laissez-faire); trademarks/branded goods and, 202. See also adulteration

  Switzerland, regulation of sweets in, 113

  synthetic food: additives, health dangers from a diet laced with, 265–66; additives used in processed foods in the United States, 229–33; chemical feast, Nader’s attack on, 261–63; famine food as forerunner of, 215 (see also famine foods); flavourings and, 248–61; fortified f
oods, 235–41; imitation foods in the United States, 222–28; as legalized consumer fraud, Walker’s campaign against, 266–71; mock foods, 218–20; new standards in the U.S. called for to promote, 234–35; opposition of consumer groups to, 261–66; Orwell on, 213–14; postwar British attitude regarding, 222; processed foods, the golden age of in the United States, 228; slimming/diet foods, 241–47; transformation of ersatz foods into consumer desirables, 247–48; in wartime and interwar Germany, 214–18; in wartime Britain, 213–14, 218–22. See also ersatz food

  Synthetic Food (Pyke), 250

  System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry (Accum), 15

  Tab, 233, 245

  Tatler, on wine “brewers,” 55–56

  tea: adulteration of, 31–33, 146–47; blue, solving the mystery of, 18; import duties and the adulteration of, 35–36

  temperance women, belief in abstinence from compromised or artificial foods, 165–66

  Terry, Josephine, 220

  testing of food: Accum’s Treatise as guide to, 18–19; basmati rice, DNA analysis of, 292–98; chemical analysis, developments in, 117–19; cream, addition of thickeners to, 17; DNA analysis, 291–92; gas chromatography, 252, 290; isotopes, 290–91; microscope, using a, 119–24, 289–90 (see also Hassall, Arthur Hill); in the Middle Ages, 89–93; modern food forensics, tools of, 289–92 (see also Food Standards Agency (FSA)); organoleptic approach to, 16–17, 289; sweets, 113–14; tests for lead in wine, development of, 55; wine quality, chemical additives and the problem of, 60

  Than Nien News, the Chinese fake egg story, 314

  thermolampes, 7

  “They’ll Never Look the Same” (Dockstader), 188

  thiamine, 236

  Thomas, David, 304

  Thomas, John R., 171

  Thurber, James, 153

  Tilda Basmati rice, 293, 296

  Time, on Kessler’s vision of labelling, 274

  Times, The: on Accum’s prosecution, 41; fake tea scandals, response to, 35–36; on food adulteration, 94; on Hassall’s discovery of coffee adulteration, 123

  tomatoes, genetic modification of, 304

  trade guilds, 85–93

  trademarks, 201–2

  trans fats, 299–301

  Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons, A (Accum), 1–6, 16–20, 25, 27–28, 42–43, 55, 116

  Treatise on the Falsification of Food and the Chemical Means Employed to Detect Them (Mitchell), 117

  truffles, Périgord, 282–83

  Trumper, Geo. F., 78

  Tryon, Thomas, 78

  Tudor crisps, 257

  Tuomy, Michael, 161–62

  Turner, James, 246

  turtle soup, mock, 218–19

  Twain, Mark, 170

 

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