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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Sulfanilamide Disaster

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In the 1920s, before the era of consumer protection, a poison entered the medicine supply and killed more than 100 people before the public health disaster could be stopped.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:34.4

Hey, welcome to the short stuff.

0:37.6

I'm Josh and there's Chuck, just a couple of mellow dudes about to talk about one of the worst

0:42.7

public health disasters in American history.

0:45.2

All right.

0:46.2

That's right.

0:47.2

And this one came about because we were just talking about this in a full length episode.

0:52.6

And little Joshy said, hey, we should do a short stuff on that thing and by the being

0:57.9

by the boom, two days later, we're doing it.

1:00.8

Yeah, not even two days.

1:02.2

I think it's the next day in podcast land time.

1:06.0

Oh, sure.

1:07.0

So it just came out.

1:08.0

Yeah, we activated our immediate response team, which is us.

1:13.0

Yes.

1:14.0

And we're going to do one on the elixir, sulfonylamide disaster.

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