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100,000,000 Guinea Pigs Dangers in Everydays Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics is book written by Arthur Schlink and F.J. Schlink first released in 1933 in the United States of America.

The book proposes idea that the American population are being use as guinea pigs in a giant experiment undertaken by the american producers of food stuff and patent medicines and alike. Much of book gives examples on how manufacturers disregard any concerns for the wellbeing of the consumers. Dito for government officials, mostly within the FDA but also on higher political level.

I. The great american guinea pig "A hundred million Americans act as unwitting test animals in a gigantic experiemnt with poisions, cunducted by the food, drug, and cosmetic manufacturers."

II. The grocer, the butcher, the baker "Bran - shortening - dried fruits - bread - pastries - preservatives - hamburger - meat - canned fish."

III. A Steady diet of arsenic and lead "Deaths from minute dioses of arsenic - indifferent Government officials permit fruit and vegetables contamintaed with deadly insecticide residue to come to our tabels - aresenic a cause of baldness and eczema- lead contamination of fruits and vegetables even greater hazar."

IV. Prescriptions, magic and posion "The drug store - poisons in the drug store window - cosmetics - antiseptics - popular toothpastes - obesity cures - headache remedies - codliver oil - the prescription department."

V. Danger in cosmetics "Depilatories - hair dyes - hair tonics and ´restorers`skin bleaches."

VI. Fake antiseptics "Webster comes tyo the aid of antiseptics that won´t kill germs - the facts about some popular brans - the cost of infections - misleading advertisements fr poor antiseptics."

VII. The quack and the dead "Dangerous patent medicines still abound - the baby-killers - Government officials chides the cancer cure-boys - Radithor - bellyaches for bankers - the Hoxide Cure - some typical cases."

VIII. Three drugs and the law "Ergot - a half cent life - adulterated etehr adds perils to operations - doctored Jamaica ginger claims 15,0000 victims."

IX. The medicine-makers "A fake promoter turns to the medicine business - the White ´Laboratories~- doctor´s valet discover´good hot blood´- a barber becomes a diabetes specialist - the man who looks like Shaw - ´Dr.´Craddick."

X. Little white lies? "Today´s family physician - the advertising copy writer - advertisements in the Delineator - McCall´s - Cosmopolitan - True Story Magazine - Good Housekepping the medical journals."

XI. The failure of protections "How it began - official aid for the adulterators - weakness of the law - one jail sentence on 18,000 cases - the farce of inspection - Ángo-Saxon ethics´- the undercover pres-agent contradicts his superiors - the run-arounds for consumers´."

XII. To make the best of bad law "Higher penalties essential - full publicity for offences and offenders - better standards for foods and drugs - back to research."

XIII. When the consumer wakes up "Planning and drafting commission to frame completely new law - system of licensing and bonding to make corporation officials personally liable - every product to be registrered - transfer enforcement to new department - special food and drug courts - made food and drug manufacture a public utility - the low cost protection."

XIV. Your responsibilities "What the individual consumer can do"