Word: senna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makers found that Castoria could be made with 20% less sugar than normally. But when they started cutting, last March, they used water" that was a little different from the water used in the tests. Results: during the 45-day aging period when the laxative material (extract of senna) normally becomes oxidized to produce some substances called oxyquinones, the material lost oxygen instead, thereby developed the anthroquinones. Looking back on it now, the makers realize that the Castoria could have been fixed up by heating, longer aging, or introducing oxygen...
Both Centaur and the Food & Drug Administration were stumped to find the guilty emetic. Company chemists analyzed a sample of Castoria, found only what was to be expected in a compound of alcohol, senna extract, bicarbonate of soda, peppermint, anise and flavoring. But when the chemists confidently took a swig, they presently upchucked...
...three concoctions endorsed by Hauser-"Slim" (containing the harmful drugs senna, bladderwrack, buckthorn bark), "Correcol" (consisting of weeds and gum), and Hauser Potassium Broth (a mixture of alfalfa, okra. beet tops, etc.)-were seized and declared by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to be "misbranded and sold under false and fraudulent claims...