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Sweetened With Lead: How Brazil's Whitest Sugar Killed 15,000
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Sweetened With Lead: How Brazil's Whitest Sugar Killed 15,000

A Portuguese doctor's sugar-refining breakthrough looked like pure genius, until it killed more people than any plague.

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