The First Food Safety Tests Were Horrifying

We take it for granted the fact that there isn’t formaldehyde in our milk, but it wasn't always that way. Hosted by: Stefan Chin ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Nicholas Smith, Tim Curwick, Alexander Wadsworth, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2011/03/bring_back_the_poison_squad.html http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/food/a23169/poison-squad/ https://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/whatwedo/history/centennialoffda/harveyw.wiley/default.htm http://www.americanheritage.com/content/doctor-wiley-and-his-poison-squad http://www.purdue.edu/uns/html3month/2006/060814.Fair.Wiley.html http://mentalfloss.com/article/92217/men-who-volunteered-be-poisoned-government http://www.americanheritage.com/content/who-put-borax-dr-wiley%E2%80%99s-butter http://www.acsh.org/news/2002/12/04/wileys-poison-squad http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/food-testing-in-1902-featured-a-tuxedoclad-poison-squad-eating-plates-of-acid https://books.google.com/books?id=HItzboi4ePQC&pg=PA227 http://laphamsquarterly.org/food/death-pot http://cen.acs.org/content/cen/articles/84/i38/Poison-SquadsTested-Chemical-Preservatives.html https://transistor.prx.org/2015/03/the-poison-squad/ http://esq.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/06/54d3fdf754244_-_21_PoisonSquadFDA.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=zhwIDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA249#v=onepage&q=wiley&f=false https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/a?dbs+hsdb:@term+@DOCNO+328 http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/08/news/la-heb-skinnygirl-margarita-sodium-benzoate-20110908 https://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/whatwedo/history/default.htm Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Dr._Harvey_W._Wiley.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formaldehyde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax