Abstract
This paper addresses role of consumers in food safety between 1850 and 1914, taking chemical laboratory of city of Brussels (1856) as a case study. It questions presence of the in discourse of city council, as well as consumers' actual participation in food control system (the inhabitants of Brussels were invited to bring food samples to laboratory). Despite very frequent and loud appeals by city's administration from 1870 on, public reacted with weak, and diminishing, enthusiasm: number of food samples submitted by private persons gradually declined up to 1914. This paper suggests various reasons, but advocates that establishment of a modern public service, which was embedded in an appropriate discourse, created trust. The paper uses police archives, contemporary brochures, and reports of municipal meetings.
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