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Eben Byers, American socialite and victim of radiation poisoning


History of the Food and Drug Administration

Much credit is given to the deaths of many people in the 1930s, including Eben Byers in 1932 from the ingestion of radithor and many women, some known as The Radium Girls, to making the FDA much more powerful organization we know today.


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