Pohl, Kornbluth & Knight

Pohl, Kornbluth & Knight, also referred to as PKK, is a company based in the North American Union which manufactures food supplements and meal replacement capsules.

It is most well-known for manufacturing Chow Caps, which were the brainchild of Julian Matthews when he worked as a top advertising executive at the firm. Matthews directed the capsules' marketing and promotion -- but the product had to be withdrawn from the market soon after launch when it was found that they were expanding prematurely and causing severe internal ruptures and even deaths.

PKK attracted a deluge of lawsuits and Matthews was dismissed -- to later enter full-time politics as head of the Privacy Party.

Background

 * The company is named after the science-fiction authors Frederick Pohl, Cyril Kornbluth and Damon Knight.