How can consumers be 100 percent sure there is no illegal drugs in their food or drinks from the grocery store..Like what if someone in the factory line wanted to do this?

Answer 1

Illegal drugs, as in, hallucinogens, opiates, cocaine, speed, Ecstasy, etc.? Recreational drugs? Recreational drugs are expensive, and being high feels good. There's not a drug user on this earth who would rather give good drugs away to complete strangers than keep them and do them themselves. It makes no sense.

A gram of cocaine goes for about $50. A quarter ounce of good pot, $150. A gram of crystal meth, $30 to $100, depending on the area. A hit of Ecstasy, $30.

That's a lot of money. It makes absolutely no sense for someone to give expensive recreational drugs away to complete strangers whom they'll never even meet, when they could keep them and party and get high on them. It would never happen.

If you're asking about poisons being added to products, then, this has happened in the past. For example, there were the Tylenol poisoning murders of 1982, and the Excedrin poisoning murders of 1986. Companies (especially over-the-counter medicine companies) have responded to these cases by creating more secure packaging that is tamper-evident, and discontinuing gel-cap pills, as they are very easy to open, put poison in, and then close up again.

There's really no way to be sure that a product you buy isn't poisoned, but it's an extremely rare occurrence. You're much more likely to get cancer or be killed in a car accident. Cyanide in your Diet Pepsi should not be high on anybody's list of worries.