FDA and Deliberate 1937 Diethylene Glycol Poisonings

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 Legislation had stalled before the so-called Sulfanilamide Disaster of 1937.  The description “Sul…