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episode 8: “A mosquito in a nudist colony”
This story is also the last episode of our second season, all about who writes federal regulations, who unwrites them and who gets written off?
episode 7: Law and Odor: a crime story about orchids, pig smell, refineries and you
There are people who argue there are just too many federal regulations with criminal consequences, that with thousands of potential criminal acts on the books, how can you know if you’re doing something wrong? And that argument has some very powerful forces behind it. In this episode, we look at the issue that’s come to be known as “overcriminalization,” and the debate about what’s a crime worth enforcing and what’s bureaucratic overreach.
episode 6: Who’s regulating whom?
This week, we're zooming out to trace the unexpected ways regulators and corporations are intertwined.
episode 5: Your regulations questions, answered
First we’re going to answer some of your questions about the stories we’ve brought you so far in this season. Then, because regulations have been in the news so much, we’re also wanted to give you some helpful context for what you’ve been hearing.
S02-4: The sentence that helped set off the opioid crisis
It's a highly misleading claim. It came with every bottle of Oxycontin for years. The FDA signed off on it, but it’s not clear who wrote it.
S02-4: The sentence that helped set off the opioid crisis
When OxyContin went to market in 1996, sales reps from Purdue Pharma hit one point particularly hard: Compared to other prescription opioids, this new painkiller was believed to be less likely to be addictive or abused.But recently unsealed documents in this investigative episode shed light on how the maker of OxyContin seems to have relied more on focus groups than on scientific studies to create an aggressive and misleading marketing campaign that helped fuel the national opioid crisis...
episode 3: The peanut butter verdict
One of the most surreal, misunderstood and yet pivotal battle over regulations ends here.
episode 2: The Peanut Butter Wars
They were long. They were difficult. They were... pretty much how regulations always get made.
Meet Ruth Desmond, a concerned citizen who changed the face of food regulation
How'd America become a regulatory state? We went looking in a D.C.-area kitchen.
episode 1: The Peanut Butter Grandma goes to Washington
In the 1950s, some food companies were ripping off customers and using additives that haven't been tested for safety. A Virginia housewife went to the FDA to expose the truth.