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The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in Our Food and Drugs

Author: Jarrow, Gail

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 7.7
Points 4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 24081
Points per Word 0.000166
Page Count 157
Points per Page 0.025478

Description

This book introduces readers to the relentless work of U.S. government chemist Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who mounted a thirty-year campaign to protect consumers from harmful food and drugs.