This week, the tragedies of chloramphenicol coincide with the tragedy of thalidomide, an anti-nausea drug that unfortunately causes birth defects. The press caused by these events, political current events, and the efforts of an FDA regulator, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, eventually led to new legislation and standards, that helped create the FDA as we know it today.

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