Elixir sulfanilamide

Elixir sulfanilamide adalah sebuah obat sulfanilamida yang menyebabkan keracunan massal di Amerika Serikat pada 1937. Obat tersebut menyebabkan kematian lebih dari 100 orang. Masyarakat terkejut akibat insiden tersebut dan kejadian serupa lain menyebabkan pengesahan Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act tahun 1938.^[1]^[2]

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^ The 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide Incident
^ "Medicine: Post-Mortem". Time. December 20, 1937. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2013-08-28. Diakses tanggal 2009-07-19. Then, two months ago, fatality knocked at its door. A new mixture of a new drug (sulfanilamide) with a new solvent (diethylene glycol), which Dr. Massengill's salesmen sold as Elixir Sulfanilamide-Massengill, was discovered to be killing its users

[FDA-1] The 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide Incident

[2] "Medicine: Post-Mortem". Time. December 20, 1937. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2013-08-28. Diakses tanggal 2009-07-19. Then, two months ago, fatality knocked at its door. A new mixture of a new drug (sulfanilamide) with a new solvent (diethylene glycol), which Dr. Massengill's salesmen sold as Elixir Sulfanilamide-Massengill, was discovered to be killing its users

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