Swill milk scandal

A 19th-century illustration of "swill milk" being produced: a sickly cow being milked while held up by ropes.

The swill milk scandal was a major adulterated food scandal in the state of New York in the 1850s. The New York Times reported an estimate that in one year, 8,000 infants died from swill milk.[1][2]

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  2. ^ "Swill - Milk and Infant Mortality", The New York Times, May 22, 1858