"In a best-selling book, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (reprinted nine times by 1935), a pair of consumer-advocate authors complained that American citizens had become test animals for chemical industries that were indifferent to their customers' well-being. The government, they added bitterly, was complicit."

Source : Deborah Blum (2011). “The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York”, p.118, Penguin

Deborah Blum

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