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Click the dates below in chronological order to explore events that took place and the subsequent legal outcomes.

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1902

The first case of significance is that of a contaminated diphtheria vaccine, in which 12 children died of tetanus. The impact was immediate. The Biologics Control Act was passed in the USA in 1902.