Analytical chemistry reform

After completing a Ph.D. degree and postdoctoral research in analytical chemistry, Saul Goldman joined the University of Guelph in 1972. As a reformed experimentalist, he developed a research program based on statistical mechanics,277 with special interests in supercritical fluid extraction, spectra of endohedral fullerenes,278 the transport of ions through biological channels, and the molecular basis for the properties of liquids and solutions.279... 

When Lavoisier reformed chemistry in France, his work was being introduced in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817). Trained as an apothecary, Klaproth taught himself the new chemical philosophy and became an assistant to Valentin Rose (1736-1771), one of the leading chemists of the day. He became director of Rose s pharmaceutical laboratory after Rose s death. Klaproth was an extremely good and extremely exact chemist, and a significant part of his work was directed at analytical chemistry, particularly the determination of characteristics of unknown compounds. During his years as director, he discovered or verified the discovery of zirconium, uranium, tellurium, and titanium. 

Two factors helped to bring about substantive reforms in food legislation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Firstly, the development of analytical chemistry which increasingly permitted the identification and estimation of constituents of foods and secondly, the widespread publicity given to the adulteration of foods. That food adulteration was rife had been acknowledged for many years but... 

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