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And I don't remember anyone getting sick from the eggs....or the farm fresh produce, beef, pork, chicken or even the fresh from the cow utter whole/un-skimmed/unpasteurized milk we brought back.
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Just because you don't remember it doesn't mean it wasn't happening - it was, it still is (although with far less frequency), and - most likely - it always will be happening.
The Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) came about for a number of reasons long before we were brought into this world. Study some History and read some of the so-called muckraker literature of the times. 
Good old days my anal sphincter.
And so it goes...
Richard 
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