The worst part is we <i>do</i> need regulation and testing of this stuff for public safety, but there&#x27;s propaganda machines on both sides thrown into such high gear we may never get it.<p>We need it because in a fly-by-night environment of small producers, there&#x27;s no accountability or detectability if some idiot decides that melamine makes a good inert buffer material.<p>What we need is simple: Bonded, enforced labeling requirements.  Safety could be nearly a solved problem with an ingredient list showing me how many milligrams of what precisely is going into the fluid (recipes left up to the producer), a license for distributing this precise formulation with money held as a security deposit, and an FDA mandate to randomly test one unit in every thousand.<p>What we&#x27;ll probably get instead is that some US corporate power with interests in a fluid company will negotiate some deal that bans all their competitors for being unsafe, and things will be made stable and expensive once more.