title: Defining, regulating and using saccharin at the outset of the industrial food era (1888-1914).
abstract: This paper focuses on the in-depth debates on saccharin that took place around 1900. In numerous discussions among chemists and physicians the sweetener was defined and redefined in a complex way and with a clear lack of agreement among experts. Nevertheless, this fact did not hinder the search for an international agreement on the regulation of saccharin in the food market. This paper analyses these discussions by building on the new trends in material culture studies, and estimates the real impact of medical and chemical expertise on international agreements.
authors.affiliation: Institut d'Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència López Piñero (CSIC-UVEG), Plaça Cisneros 4, València 46003, Spain. joaquim.guillem@uv.es
authors.forename: Ximo
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guillem-Llobat
mesh_terms: D019649:Food Industry / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007881:Legislation, Food / Q000266:history; D012439:Saccharin / Q000266:history*; D013549:Sweetening Agents / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D013549:Sweetening Agents; D012439:Saccharin