" 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. "

― Deborah Blum , The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York