The Great Thanksgiving Cranberry Scare Of 1959

Fifty-six years ago Americans panicked over a Thanksgiving Day classic – cranberries. Just days before Thanksgiving in 1959, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare set off the first nationwide food panic saying that domestic cranberry products were contaminated with a carcinogenic herbicide. He failed to point out that one would have to eat 15,000 pounds of cranberries every day for several years to get cancer.

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