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简答题Regulation of food and drugs has often--perhaps always--derived from an accidental adulteration of said food and drugs that resulted in consumer deaths． A classic example is the Bradford sweets poisoning of l858．In this case，aLine confectionary salesman known as “Humbug Billy” purchased the sweets sold
(5)at his stand from a wholesaler，Joseph Neal．To hold down costs，Neal cut the expensive sugar in his candy with daft，which may have been a less-than-nutritious combination of crushed limestone and plaster of paris．on the occasion in question，a series of circumstances led Neal’s daft supplier to substitute 12 pounds of the wrong powder．The candy was mixed witll arsenic trioxide rather than daft，
(10) and 20 people died after consuming the sweets．It took another 10 years，but the Pharmacy Act in l868 restricted the sale and availability of poisons． Select one answer choice．
The author of the passage cites the Bradford sweets case primarily in order to

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B．Keep the first sentence of the passage in mind as you answer；it contains the author’s purpose and main focus．That helps you understand that the case is mentioned as an example of food adulteration that led to a change inthe law(choice B)．

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