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Emily's Cat
Thalidomide is a lot more complicated than that. This off topic, I know, but thalidomide's right-handed isomer was tested, was safe, and was very good at controlling morning sickness. At that point in time we didn't even know that chirality *could* be a problem. It wasn't until the left-handed isomers got in the mix that we saw problems.
Yes, 100% testing is important. But you can't test for a thing you don't know is a thing.
So keeping it out of the US really was an abuse of governmental oversight then?