Comment by jodrellblank

Companies don't care about making products safe until government steps in and forces them to. Unsafe food was not "next", it was the norm until Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle. Unsafe cars are not "next", they were the norm; seatbelts were first recommended by a surgeon in 1930 who went on to form the Automobile Safety League of America, they weren't mandatory until at least 30 years later with seat belt legislation [1], or airbags legislation in 1998 [2].

Remember .. cigarettes? Arsenic Wallpaper and cloth[3]? Radium cosmetics [4]? Toasty warm Radium blankets[5]? Shoe fitting x-ray fluouroscopes[6]? Lead water pipes[7]? Sugar? Guns? non-fire resistant household furniture? Dinitrophenol[8]? Asbestos? Leaded petrol? CFCs? Unsafe buildings? Bisphenol-A? BSE related beef? 3D printers and their carcinogenic particle side effects[9]? Trans fats[10]?

and then why we have things like the CE marking safety standard in Europe. On and on, products are harmful by default until government steps in and forces manufacturers to make them safe(r). The free market cares about profit, not people.

What's next, people who make products are responsible for making them safe?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_legislation

[2] https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/federal-legislat...

[3] https://hyperallergic.com/329747/death-by-wallpaper-alluring...

[4] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/objects-of-intrigue-lo...

[5] https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/364732/view/radium-blanke...

[6] https://gizmodo.com/the-insane-cancer-machines-that-used-to-...

[7] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509614/

[8] https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2014/feb/06/d...

[9] http://blog.ichibanelectronic.com/3d-printers/3d-printers-ca...

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat#Public_response_and_...