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.
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
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.”
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.
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.
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!"
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%.
After a lot of searching, I think I may have figured out the m measurement: minim
This 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).