We Don’t Need Food Dyes, but Their Crimes Are Overblown

In the late nineteenth century, Germany was at the forefront of chemical research and it was an ideal place for Purdue University chemistry professor Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley to spend a sabbatical to broaden his horizons. After attending lectures by August Wilhelm Hofmann, under whose tutelage young William Henry Perkin had discovered mauve, the first …

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