The worst part is we do need regulation and testing of this stuff for public safety, but there's propaganda machines on both sides thrown into such high gear we

The worst part is we do need regulation and testing of this stuff for public safety, but there's propaganda machines on both sides thrown into such high gear we may never get it. We need it because in a fly-by-night environment of small producers, there's no accountability or detectability if some idiot decides that melamine makes a good inert buffer material. What we need is simple: Bonded, enforced labeling requirements. Safety could be nearly a solved problem with an ingredient list showing me how many milligrams of what precisely is going into the fluid (recipes left up to the producer), a license for distributing this precise formulation with money held as a security deposit, and an FDA mandate to randomly test one unit in every thousand. What we'll probably get instead is that some US corporate power with interests in a fluid company will negotiate some deal that bans all their competitors for being unsafe, and things will be made stable and expensive once more.