Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880-1975 - Hardy, Anne (Honorary Professor, Honorary Professor, Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

The first scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of the discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem in the 1880s, of the discovery of pathways of infection and of the Salmonella family, and of the realisation that these organisms are deeply embedded in human and animal food chains and the subsequent importance of food hygiene.