Be careful out there, you have no clue what is in those supplements you
take. And if our fuckingly stupid federal legislators hadn't passed the
Dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA): (DSHEA) defined dietary supplements as a
category of food, which put
them under different regulations than drugs. They are considered safe
until proven otherwise. Caveat Emptor. This recalls the patent medicines in the 18th and 19th centuries. It took the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 to reign these in.
https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/supplement-harvard-pieter-cohen/
Two paragraphs from there;
The entire episode opens a window into the Wild West world of
supplements. Unlike drug companies, supplement manufacturers don’t have
to show that their formulations are safe or effective before putting a
product on the market. They don’t have to run clinical trials. They
don’t have to consult federal regulators.
With little oversight, they can jump right into a highly lucrative
industry: Wheat, a convicted felon, said his company brings in more than
$100 million a year in annual revenue. His company’s social media pages are lined with images of bodybuilders with veins bursting out of their biceps.
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