<p><span class="deck">The father of the Pure Food and Drug Act was as hard on his allies as he was on his foes.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">And other high-tech debacles and how we learned to cope with them</span></p>
<p>No sugar tonight</p>
<p>Many of our first food-safety laws arose after healthy young volunteers became sick when they tried commercial foods containing toxic additives.</p>
