FDA and Deliberate 1937 Diethylene Glycol Poisonings (Sulfanilamide Disaster)

INTRODUCTION

The FDA makes a deliberately misleading statement: Congress reacted to the tragedy, which killed over 100 people, by enacting a new federal food and drug statute, the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. What the FDA does not tell you is that the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act had stalled before the so-called Sulfanilamide Disaster of 1937.…