Radioactive Goods Before people realized that radiation exposure could be fatal, they thought it was just a fancy ingredient that makes things glow. Tho-Radia company has created a whole line of perfumes, creams, powders, lipsticks and other cosmetic products contained thorium chloride and radium. Between 1931 and 1936, the German company Burk & Braun sold […]

DDT DDT was created as the first synthetic insecticide in the 1940s. It was originally used with great success to fight malaria, typhoid and other insect-borne human diseases, among both military and civilian population. DDT was effective in reducing morbidity and mortality from malaria during World War II. The World Health Organization anti-malaria campaign (spraying […]