106: The History of Food Safety Part 3: The Poison Squad, The Worlds Fair, and Upton Sinclair

It's a History Podcast · Sep 17, 2026 · 32m

Hello! In This weeks Episode we are going to be continuing our look at the history of food safety. This week we are looking at the Poison Squad experiments themselves, Harvey's continued work in making the Public Aware of the state of food, and a trail on canned beef.

In the two previous parts of this series we discussed the state of food safety when it came to milk and dairy products. We also took a look at the changing landscape of commercially processed foods and their increasing use of untested preservatives.

We also met Harvey Wiley, the chief chemist at the department of agriculture who…