Every year, millions of unhealthy products are dumped all over the world onto misinformed consumers. Because of this, many preventable deaths have occurred throughout the years. Dumping exists "when the US government forces a dangerous drug, pesticide, or other product off the domestic market, the manufacturer then sells that same product – frequently with the direct support of the State Department – throughout the rest of the world."
             Depo-Provera, a form of contraceptive, was linked to a study where it was found that it caused Breast Cancer in Beagles. After many years of usage, Depo-Provera was taken off the market in the US and then sold throughout Third World Countries. There, it is used to reduce population, is sold in 70 different countries. As of recently, Depo-Provera has resurfaced in the US and is becoming popular amongst the teenage population. Some believe that doctors are forcing this product onto teenagers who they believe are minorities, they then do not give them the responsible amount of information that is needed. Some side effects of the drug are weight gain, around 3-4 pounds, irregular bleeding during their menstrual period.
             Government officials conspired together to dump thousands of deadly, unsterilized contraceptive devices, unmarketable in the US, into Third World Countries. These contraceptives were Dalkon Shields. It is known to have been the worst device ever sold upon American women in the 1970s. Within the first five years after it's introduction, 18 patients died, while hundreds of others suffered harsh, life-threatening septic abortions and at least a thousand more suffered from infection from unsterilized products. The contraceptive is inserted through a needle, which in third-world countries is expensive to provide. Therefore, most of the time, the needle is sterilized in a disinfected solution. Here in the US that would be t
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