Reading Amazon reviews of first aid products (specifically skin repair) and crossindexing score, date and country of origin to see when FDA quietly banned stuff that works. Packaging doesn& #39;t change but you can see the spikes in 1 star reviews.

So many of these regulatory compromises. Ban something that works, allow corporations to substitute something useless in the same bottle. And life gets a little bit worse. The canonical example is pseudoephedrine changing to phenylephrine in OTC cold and allergy meds.

Oral phenylephrine is completely useless, and everyone in the industry knows it. It& #39;s fraud to sell it. But it solved a political problem.

Same thing for so many other products. Dishwasher soap, laundry detergent. Asthma inhalers. For our protection.