Food and its Adulterations
Arthur Hill Hassall, the senior analyst for the London The Lancet, published in 1855 a complete record of The Lancet articles that brought food adulteration before a wide public and eventually resulted in Parliamentary action: Food and its Adulterations. Comprising the Reports of the Analytic Sanitary commission of The Lancet for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive; revised and extended: being records of the results of some thousands of original microscopical and chemical analyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes of the public. (Exact month of publication unknown; if you have information about the correct date, please email felluga@purdue.edu with this information.)