We've seen example after example of "Scientists & Business" knowing full well that their products are harmful and doing everything they can to cover that fact up and prevent the public from learning the truth, and even examples where the FDA itself knew full well that the products are harmful and yet the products are allowed to continue to be sold.

The entire system is broken and part of what is missing, perhaps the most important part, is accountability and meaningful consequences.

Obviously, companies who were genuinely unaware that their products were harmful and who immediately recalled and ceased production of those products after finding out aren't the biggest problem, but they still show that the product safety testing practices of both the company and the FDA are inadequate.

If it’s really unknowingly they shouldn’t be held responsible. But we have plenty of examples where companies knew exactly what’s going on and they covered it up for decades. See lead gas or tobacco. Or the food industry who pours sugar into everything. They know exactly that they are generating millions of diabetics.

The thing is, it seems they usually do know. And we don’t prosecute and handle that case yet. So the “unknowingly” seems to be the least of our worries.

Both. Unknowingly usually means uncaringly. And the FDA clearly has duty to thoroughly test products.