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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury by Deborah Blum

The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury runs 11.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Kirsten Potter (about 7.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.1listening hrs
Current Affairs, Law, & Politicsstore shelf
2018released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11.1 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day23 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 11.1 hours, it runs longer than 70% of the 8,990 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Kirsten Potter

Kirsten Potter narrates 376 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,907 hours in all.

All Kirsten Potter audiobooks, measured

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury is an audiobook by Deborah Blum: a 11.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Kirsten Potter, released September 25, 2018, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics and History & Culture shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
11.1 hrs
Narrated by
Kirsten Potter
Released
September 25, 2018
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Current Affairs, Law, & Politics, History & Culture, The Americas
ISBN
9780525639893

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury as an audiobook?

The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury runs 11.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.4 hours.

Is The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury?

The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury is narrated by Kirsten Potter.

Is The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.4 hours, saving 3.7 hours.