Did newspapers exaggerate or downplay Wiley's poison squad test results?

"Unfortunately, in several cases, the members of the training table suffered severely from colds, influenza, and grippe to such an extent that their services were often lost during a whole period."

"It is evident, therefore, that the administration of both benzoic acid and benzoate of soda results in serious disturbances of the digestive functions, with positive indications of illness, which may easily be increased to nausea and vomiting, while headache is a very common symptom"

"In the case of the preservatives employed, however, which in the quantities used produced no such effects, the objections are entirely g-roundless."

"These cases of illness, not due to the action of the preservatives, are duly noted in the proper places in the details of the"

"The symptoms returned, however, with renewed vigor on the 25th, with continued burning sensation in the throat and stomach, especially after meals, and continuing for about two hours."

"These symptoms were not only well marked, but they Avere produced upon healthy individuals, receiving good and nourishing food and living under proper sanitary conditions."

"Judged by this rule, therefore, it is concluded from the data of Series II that the administration of the preservative tends in a slight degree to diminish the body weight."

"It is only fair to conclude, therefore, that under similar conditions of administration of benzoic acid or benzoate of soda in the case of weaker systems, or less resistant conditions of health, much more serious and lasting injury would be produced."

"In every instance in Series II there is a loss of weight during the administration of the preservative as compared with the fore period."

"It should not be forgotten that the subjects upon whom the experiments were made represent the highest type of health and resistance."

"The data, therefore, of this series are contradictory, and too much consideration must not be given to data of this character."

"The maximum quantities of benzoic acid, therefore, given during the entire preservative period are 35 and 34.9 grams, and only three men were able to take these amounts."

"btained from the three separate investigations are in close agreement in all essential features."

"The admixture of sodium benzoate with food in small or large doses has not been found tc affect injuriously or impair the quality or nutritive"

"Sodium benzoate in large doses (up to 4 grams per day) mixed with the food has net been"

"zusammen mit Harvey Washington Wiley: Influence of food preservatives and artificial colors on digestion and health. v. Formaldehyde. in: U .S. Dept. of Agriculture. Bureau of Chemistry. Bulletin, no. 84, pt. v. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, D.C., 1908"

"Wiley leitete zwischen 1902 und 1907 eine Versuchsreihe zur Erforschung des Metabolismus von Konservierungsmitteln mit menschlichen Versuchspersonen; die Teilnehmergruppe dieser Versuchsreihe wurde von den Medien Poison Squad"

"It is no exaggeration to say that 8 per cent of the infants that die under the age of two years are killed by improper food of some sort."

"The Bureau of Chemistry under Dr. Wiley's leadership dedicated itself to research on food adulteration (including tests done on human volunteers known as the Poison Squad) and building support for a comprehensive food and drugs law."

"1902 wechselte er in der Funktion als Scientific Assistant zum Bureau of Chemistry des United States Department of Agriculture nach Washington, D.C."

"More babies are murdered by impure or unwholesome food than are done te death by ail the croup"

"Dr. Wiley was appointed in 1883 as Chief Chemist"

"Just what proportion of them are killed by patent ‘baby foods’ it is impossible, of eourse, to determine."

"Even after we get through this investigation we shall not know the answer to that Question, but we will come pretty near knowing which of these proprietary diets are fit to be put into infants’ stomachs"

"We do not need any ‘poison squad’ to convince us that a certain food i= unfit for bables when ite analysis proves that {t contains ingredients that experienced physicians assure us should not be fed to infants."