Excerpt from Uncle Sam at Your Service: September 16, 1929 As for the listener part, you have to be pretty good to sit through a long session With a man who is trying to explain why he adulterated the milk he sold with Water, burnt sugar, and a yellow dye to make it look rich. In my 22 years as a food and drugs inspector, I have heard that story many times. I have heard other stories equally interesting. I have been in the laboratories, in the field, in the manufacturing plants where foods are made, analyzed talked about. I have spent a lot of time in the markets where foods are sold. I tell you this simply because I'd like to give you a general idea of what it means to safeguard the nation's food as the announcer before I tell you how we £13 it. A lot of water has run under the bridge since I first got into this work of helping to make foods and drugs safe for the consumer. I always liked to work with things, to study them. I guess I have an investigational mind. Anyhow, I get a lot of pleasure out of associating with chemists, bacteriologists, scientist s-- men working in field and laboratory. Be I am not going to keep on with these personal reminiscences much longer. But I do want to mention one more case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.