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People tend to forget the Food part that the Food and Drug Administration take care of. Here’s milk before 1906:
Finally, if the milk was threatening to sour, dairymen added formaldehyde, an embalming compound long used by funeral parlors, to stop the decomposition, also relying on its slightly sweet taste to improve the flavor. In the late 1890s, formaldehyde was so widely used by the dairy and meat-packing industries that outbreaks of illnesses related to the preservative were routinely described by newspapers as “embalmed meat” or “embalmed milk” scandals.
Jesus fucking Christ
When people claim the free market will fix things, the thousands of examples that lead to 99% of regulations are why those people should be laughed at and told to shut the fuck up.
You should read the book “The Jungle” as it is part of the early investigative journalism and contains very specific details that will make you want to vomit
I’ve read The Jungle Book and it didn’t make me vomit at all.
Different book
No I haven’t read The Different Book, sorry mate.
Oh, there’s more fun in the article.
They also faked the look of rich cream by using a yellowish layer of pureed calf brains. As a historian of the Indiana health department wrote: “People could not be induced to eat brain sandwiches in [a] sufficient amount to use all the brains, and so a new market was devised.”
“Surprisingly enough,’’ he added, “it really did look like cream but it coagulated when poured into hot coffee.”
this is what conservatives want to bring back by defanging regulatory bodies
Well I mean yeah. Because their constituents have the educations of gerbils in cages. They believe whatever slopp is spoon-fed to them by their propaganda arm, Faux News. And then when the bad things happen, the blame it on a liberal conspiracy and their idiots will lap it up and vote them back into office over and over and over again.
Not to mention all the grifters treating fucking radium like a vitamin.
Redditor certified lmfao
Apparently it sends your immune system into maximum overdrive, which feels great. For a while.
They used to have people paint on radium with there mouth. Those people ended up losing there jaw and teeth so there would just be a bunch of mutilated skin left
Kinda close… women painted lume on clock dials and arms. They were told the luminous radium paint was safe and they used their lips to put a point on the paintbrushes they were using. The same companies that told them it was safe pushed the dentists and doctors seeing the effects attribute it to STDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls has a really good summary.
And the most damning part of all imo: “the owners and the scientists familiar with the effects of radium carefully avoided any exposure to it themselves. Chemists at the plant used lead screens, tongs, and masks.”.
The plant owners definitely knew that they were killing people, there should have been murder charges imo.
Sounds like a helluva night.
You won’t even remember you had a cough. It’s really that effective!
welp, if/when things go south in november and we get a new american god king, the executive decree eliminating the FDA brings all this back, right? gotta look for silver linings and all that jazz.
“one night brand cough syrup - you wont even remember you had a democracy!”
Give a damn? Take a gram!
Thomas Crooks was a hero 😭
Need some lead lining in that bottle.
Pffff. No Heroin? I will take my business elsewhere sir.
Right, morphine is for n00bs
I prefer coke
lets talk about uranium infused soft drinks
True Nuka-Cola
when the “free market” doesn’t have regulations
you mean with self-regulations
“We’ve investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.”
What does it mean, less than 1% alcohol? And what if the unit of “m”?
The “m.” is probably [minim](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_(unit\) ) and “gr.” will be [grain](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_(mass\) )
The m is an old apothecary unit for “minims” which was about 1 drop. Not very exact, the amount dosed depended on the method used to dispense each drop. Most of the content was probably water or glycol syrup, so the total alcohol content would be diluted to less than 1%.
I prefer the 20% stuff
Probably means less than 1% of the syrup by weight is alcohol. m. I’m not sure, maybe a nonstandard abbreviation of ml?
Doesn’t seem possible considering it’s a per ounce listing.
Perhaps it’s suggesting less than 1% impurity in the alcohol; i.e. methanol content?
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After a lot of searching, I think I may have figured out the
mmeasurement: minimThis is from the Apothecaries’ system of measurement used for medical prescriptions. The minim is basically equivalent to a single drop, as measured by a minimometer (a type of graduated glass cylinder).
Got to get that cocaine to ward of the ‘Vapors’
I don’t need no “Directions” to know how to Rock!
