October 8, 2025

Dose of History – Sulfanilamide and the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

In the fall of 1937, over 100 people died from consuming an antibiotic called “elixir of sulfanilamide”. This prompted a protracted scandal which would implicate drug manufacturers, pharmacists, and the…

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September 25, 2025

Dose of History – Drug Advertising pre and post Pure Food and Drug Act

Throughout 1905 and 1906, the American magazine Collier’s published a series of articles by journalist Samuel A. Hopkins exposing the “fraud and poison” of the American pharmaceutical industry. One practice…

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