The complete online text of An Adulteration Act by W. W. Jacobs.

W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...

Concerns about packaging materials were raised precipitously with a report by a Danish magazine, Borsens Nyhedsmagasin, that aromatic amine components present in adhesives used in multilaminate films are migrating into the packaged food. With aromatic amines being carcinogenic, that could be a real...

The recent high pitched and high level campaign to curb and control adulteration of agricultural pesticides is certainly a very welcome step and nobody can differ on its objective. The aim of the anti-adulteration Campaign is certainly very noble and it is being...