[Dried meats and the provisions of poisonous dried meat recorded in Er nian lü ling (Statutes of the second year) on Han bamboo slips unearthed in Zhangjiashan].
It was a common social phenomenon to process, to store and to consume dried meat in the Qin and Han Dynasties. But some dried meat was poisonous, which did much harm to people's health and even influenced the social stability at that time. A provision of poisonous dried meat in Statutes of the Second Year is the earliest statutes in ancient China on preventing and dealing with food poisoning now discovered. For the purpose of maintaining the social stability in early Han Dynasty, they stipulated the principles and methods of disposing the dried meat, and established the penalty standard for the breach of the dried meat disposing regulations, which has great significance in medical history and legislative history.
Liu
Xiang-ming
XM
Jiaying College, Meizhou 514015, China.
D002681:China; D005511:Food Handling / Q000266:history* / Q000592:standards; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000266:history*; D049690:History, Ancient; D008460:Meat