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Glass bottles of milk

The 19th-Century Fight Against Bacteria-Ridden Milk Preserved With Embalming Fluid

Source: Smithsonian

Food industries did not always have the best interests of their consumers in mind. This is especially the case with “embalmed milk,” a tainted dairy product.

This entry was posted in An Age of Realism and tagged Health & Medicine, History, People on November 1, 2018 by Daniella Navarro.

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