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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/09/adbss0qey8jdcellgktk.jpg?quality=75&w=102410241024If you sat down to eat at any point and in any part of the US in the 1800s, nothing on your plate was quite what it seemed. The level of vile, often toxic contamination in basic consumer products was almost unimaginable to modern folk raised under the auspices of the FDA.