Remember when thalidomide affected a generation of children, well not if you're in the US
We avoided that catastrophe due to the FDA and strict regulations. Alas, the UK did not.
reminder that there was a time when they were literally selling radium soft drinks in the USA that were so toxic that the biggest fan of the brand had to be buried in a lead coffin because of how much radiation poisoning he got from them and this death led to the FDA regulations that exist now
The FDA let the USA jump from comically bad to world-leading in food safety, and then over the course of a century terrible people gnawed away at it like fucking Nidhogg.
