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A wide-eyed baby sits in a vintage stroller, reaching for a baby bottle filled with buggy, spoiled milk — a darkly humorous nod to unsafe dairy in history.

Formula for Disaster

April 21, 2025 Carolyn Fillmore 0

When shady dairies put profits over babies, America paid the price. How a 19th-century milk scandal killed 8,000 children and sparked food safety laws. [more…]