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'I Had No Time to Pick Out the Worms”: Food adulteration in Singapore, 1900–1973
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Tarulevicz, NT, 'I Had No Time to Pick Out the Worms': Food adulteration in Singapore, 1900-1973, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 16, (3) pp. 1-24. ISSN 1532-5768 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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© 2015 Nicole Tarulevicz and The Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: doi:10.1353/cch.2015.0037
Abstract
Food safety is a cultural construction, culturally and temporally specific. This paper is
concerned with the particular food safety issue of food adulteration in the city-state of
Singapore. Taking the five-part definition of food adulteration, published in a local
newspaper in 1913 ahead of new legislation, as its structure, this paper examines how
food adulteration was understood, subverted, regulated, prosecuted and eventually
updated, to trace the institutional constructions and performances of food safety
knowledges and their popular responses.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Food adulteration, Singapore, History |
| Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
| Research Group: | Historical studies |
| Research Field: | Asian history |
| Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
| Objective Group: | Other culture and society |
| Objective Field: | Other culture and society not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Tarulevicz, NT (Associate Professor Nicki Tarulevicz) |
| ID Code: | 104370 |
| Year Published: | 2015 |
| Deposited By: | School of Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2015-11-10 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-03-08 |
| Downloads: | 204 View Download Statistics |
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