It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the intended scope of executive power created by politicians from ~1880-1940 realizing that you need an actual civil service and organized bureaucracy to run an industrial state and having to shove that into a 18th century federal republic
I just wish folks do jog the shoehorning had opted to put regulations/rule-writing under Congress even if *enforcement* had to be under the executive. Maybe we should do that if we get a chance. Give me the Congressional EPA
Like at no point could Da Founderz plausibly imagined that “decide how much paper money to print” or “make sure that the drugs are not mostly chalk” are essential functions of the government to keep society from exploding
Idk, the Reinheitsgebot (beer purity law) was created in 1516, SOME of those guys had to have done the Grand Tour or knew someone who had, so they could have encountered the idea of legal standards for product ingredients
The constitution basically assumes those sorts of laws would be handled at the state level. That's fine as long as most products are produced and consumed locally. It stops working if a single company can ship product to stores across the entire country
“Germany” was also a bunch of random states back then, some places followed it some didnt
It was specifically Bavarian but I was pulling off of the top of my head, detail lookup came AFTER
right, but that's just a single law. you could get a bunch of dudes together and pass a law every now and again regulating trade. the modern day is much diffrent
Yea there’s that, there’s the assize of bread and ale, but like that’s not the same scale as something like the establishment of the FDA
I think a lot of this was done at the local and state level until the mid/late 19th century where technology, media, and social change made it such that people could grift on a mass scale that couldn’t be reined in by “well county law says the bread can’t have plaster instead of flour”.
Which makes sense, given the needs of pre-industrial societies. Such as 1770s and 1780s America.
Complete nonsense patent medicines were already a thing by then but given how the remedies actual physicians used were also mostly dangerous nonsense (opium and quinine actually worked but WOW did they like their mercury compounds) it took a while for the idea of regulating drugs to catch on
Lead based makeup came to mind with this comment..
That they would then make extra unhealthy by storing it in some beautiful pale yellow or light green uranium glass.
It's pretty though. 😂 I can definitely see the attraction.
Absolutely 👍 A lifetime ago, I was at the Corning factory’s museum in upstate NY and they had a display of uranium glass with a Geiger counter next to it. As you might expect, that stuff was still giving off a higher than safe level of rads.
Oh dear. Admire from afar.
And Emerald green clothing. Good God that was so toxic.
Arsenic green was more peridot than emerald usually but yes!
Oh yes. That's it. It's been awhile since I read about that. 16th century England I think. I'd have to look..
Which we’re STILL having problems with! Not in the ones officially sold as cosmetics for adults, which are regulated, but the ones sold to children are often classified as toys and not sufficiently tested! And lead is such an ATTRACTIVE pigment.
Absolutely. They know they're not putting it on dolls. They're wearing it. It's ridiculous. My granddaughter wanted some for Christmas. I got her some subtle Avon products that her mother controlled. No sparkles which can scratch the cornia of the eye. Ask me how I know. 😂
man, when I got a scratched cornea it involved a rambunctious five year old and a ski tag hanging from a parka zipper
I remember when my son got his dinker caught in the zipper. 😂 He would only wear jogging pants for the longest time. One bad experience, and he was over it. 😂😂
Lol. That can hurt. Did you remove it?
I’d be inclined to let a little kid have the BRIGHT colors but I’d order a rainbow palette from Colourpop for the purpose