Alert (and regular) readers will quickly discover that this issue is unusual in several other respects. Apart from the product safety theme, there are more pages than usual, and a wider selection of original articles—a veritable “bumper bundle”. (For readers who did not grow up in the 1940s, a “bumper bundle” was a special, fat version of a comic book, usually appearing around Christmas.)

To a great extent, the large number of papers is a tribute to authors who either …