This reminds me of the recent discussion about adulterated turmeric. The Economist, how to stop turmeric from killing people: https://www.economist.com/leaders

This reminds me of the recent discussion about adulterated turmeric. The Economist, how to stop turmeric from killing people: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/11/02/how-to-stop-turmeric-from-killing-people https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/11/02/how-to-stop-tur... Hacker News post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38139011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38139011 The FDA deputy commissioner’s statement on the adulterated cinnamon is very interesting. “My instinct is they didn’t think this product was going to end up in a country with a robust regulatory process,” Jones said. “They thought it was going to end up in places that did not have the ability to detect something like this.” In fact, the regulatory process failed to prevent the lead poisoning of the children involved. The goalposts the statement erects are to stop a poisoning that’s underway once children already have high levels of lead in their blood, rather than to prevent lead poisoning to begin with. And it suggests that the supply chain issue was a mixup that was only possible due to the failure of other countries to reject lead-laced cinnamon, seemingly an attempt to scapegoat other countries for the agency’s failure at preventing the poisoning of children within the United States.