(xpost) 'The food supplement that ruined my liver'

[The Conductor]

10. The Neutraceutical gang...

Remind me so much of the Elixer Sulfaniomide scandal back in the 1930s. Most of the anti-regulation types have never heard of that, of course. The sulfa drugs were the first class of effective antibiotics. Unfortunately, at the time, no testing of any kind was required, and the companies could hire anyone to make up the drugs, just as the neutra gang does now. One chemist got it in his head to use ethylene glychol as a preservative; you know it today as antifreeze. It is poisonous, of course, and more than 100 people died, many of them children.

At the time, the government didn't even have the power to pull a dangerous product off the shelf, so those deaths continued even after it was clear that all of the dead had used the same medicine. And, all the while, the manufacturer continued to insist it was perfectly safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir_sulfanilamide