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Early synthetic vitamins came from toxic coal tar
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Your modern daily gummy vitamin owes its existence to industrial waste. When scientists first figured out how to synthesize essential vitamins in a lab, they derived them heavily from coal tar—a thick, black, highly toxic byproduct of gas production. Turning literal toxic sludge into health supplements is exactly the kind of cynical alchemy the pharmaceutical industry was built on.
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