Accum, Frederick

Acceptable dally Intake (ADI), 6 Accum, Frederick, classic treatise on adulterations of food and drugs, 85... 

Frederick Accum, A System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry, London, 1803. 

A textbook of great appeal to early American chemists is that of Frederick Accum, entitled A System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry (item 20). Several early American chemists—Benjamin Silliman of Yale, James Freeman Dana of Dartmouth, John Gorham of Harvard—studied in his laboratory in London (J). One of the early American textbooks used in training medical students was that of Amos Eaton, a professor of natural philosophy and chemistry in the Vermont Academy of Medicine. His book is entitled Philosophical Instructor (item 30). 

Frederick Accum s classic treatise on adulterations of food and drugs, published in 1820, was the first popular book to focus public attention on the seriousness of the problem.(2) Accum pointed out that some adulterations were harmless, resulting merely in fraud on the consumer, but others were deleterious to health as well. After widely-publicized investigations of food and drug adulteration, England enacted national statutes in 1850 and 1875 prohibiting any ingredient "injurious to health."(3-4)... 

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