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Deborah Blum

Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer-Prize winning science writer and the author of five books, most recently the best-seller, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. She writes for a range of publications including The New York Times, Scientific American, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times (and even the literary journal, Tin House). She is currently working on a sixth book about poisonous food.

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Arsenic Nation

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An FDA postscript on arsenic and rice

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The FDA sidesteps on arsenic and rice.

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Poison Pen at The New York Times

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While You Were Sleeping

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Elemental Honors

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On Cyanide and the Homicidal Scientist

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A Cyanide Death in Pittsburgh

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Bad Blood

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About Ricin