{"product_id":"a-treatise-on-adulterations-of-food-and-culinary-poisons-exhibiting-the-fraudulent-sophistications-9781805476078","title":"A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons: Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Friedrich Christian Accum\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Sascha Association\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Sascha Association\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Food Science - Chemistry \u0026amp; Biotechnology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Treatise, as its title expresses, is intended to exhibit easy methods of detecting the fraudulent adulterations of food, and of other articles, classed either among the necessaries or luxuries of the table; and to put the unwary on their guard against the use of such commodities as are contaminated with substances deleterious to health.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery person is aware that bread, beer, wine, and other substances employed in domestic economy, are frequently met with in an adulterated state: and the late convictions of numerous individuals for counterfeiting and adulterating tea, coffee, bread, beer, pepper, and other articles of diet, are still fresh in the memory of the public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo such perfection of ingenuity has the system of counterfeiting and adulterating various commodities of life arrived in this country, that spurious articles are every where to be found in the market, made up so skilfully, as to elude the discrimination of the most experienced judges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut of all possible nefarious traffic and deception, practised by mercenary dealers, that of adulterating the articles intended for human food with ingredients deleterious to health, is the most criminal, and, in the mind of every honest man, must excite feelings of regret and disgust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNumerous facts are on record, of human food, contaminated with poisonous ingredients, having been vended to the public; and the annals of medicine record tragical events ensuing from the use of such food.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eager and insatiable thirst for gain, is proof against prohibitions and penalties; and the possible sacrifice of a fellow-creature's life, is a secondary consideration among unprincipled dealers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sascha Association","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45125491130519,"sku":"9781805476078","price":1317.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781805476078.webp?v=1767650824","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-treatise-on-adulterations-of-food-and-culinary-poisons-exhibiting-the-fraudulent-sophistications-9781805476078","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}