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Formation of the Society of Public Analysts Formation of the Society of Public Analysts
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5 The appointment of public food analysts in Britain
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Published:September 2020
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Abstract
Britain was one of the first western countries to implement comprehensive food regulation in a series of parliamentary bills enacted during the second half of the nineteenth century. It was also one of the first countries to introduce the mandatory appointment of public analysts to test food quality and safety, in the 1875 Sale of Food and Drugs Act. This chapter describes the conflicts public analysts faced in developing a creditable role as food chemists and guardians of food quality. At a time of professionalization of scientists, public analysts often felt themselves to be underpaid and insufficiently respected. Disputes arose between chemists, particularly between the public analysts working for local municipalities and the government chemists employed in the customs laboratory at Somerset House. A lack of consensus surrounding adulteration and the conflicting positions public analysts took as paid consultants for food producers and retailers and for local authorities acting for the public also affected their credibility and authority.
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