Adulderated Milk

Would you drink milk containing boric acid? Food  adulteration has been a hazard throughout time with the risk of poisoning it can create. Boric acid is used in insecticides and fungicides, so possibly not the best substance to have added to your milk.

Wartime food shortages incentivize the adulteration of food. Thus in 1917 we see Mr. A.H.Musson, a farmer at Gedney in Lincolnshire, prosecuted for selling 1 ½ pints of milk containing boric acid. He claimed he had added the boric acid as a milk preserving powder he had gotten from the chemist, who assured him it was harmless. He possibly did not help his defence when he said, “the policeman drank some of the milk and said it was beautiful.”