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...while the FDA doesn't test supplements itself, it does provide information on complaints it has received and brands the agency has pulled off the market for safety reasons. At the very least, you can always call the manufacturers directly. If they can't answer your questions, then probably...
...Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act of 1994, the Food and Drug Administration no longer regulates the supplement industry the way it watches over prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Supplements don't get the same premarket safety and efficacy evaluations that drugs get, nor does the FDA set standards to ensure that labels accurately reflect contents...
Some in the supplement industry are already taking potshots at ConsumerLab.com which publishes its test methods but does not submit its results to peer review, as reputable scientific journals require. But until there is a better system of standards and quality control--the FDA is currently working on such a proposal--the reports of small testing outfits like this one are better than nothing...
...started about two years ago, when the buzz from European antibiotech protest groups began to ricochet throughout the Net, reaching the community groups that were springing up across the U.S. Many were galvanized by proposed FDA regulations that would have allowed food certified as "organic" to contain genetically modified ingredients--an effort shouted down by angry consumers. Meanwhile, Greenpeace began to target U.S. companies such as Gerber, which quickly renounced the use of transgenic ingredients, and Kellogg's, which has yet to do so. With so-called Frankenfoods making headlines, several other companies cut back on biotech: McDonald's forswore...
...Wednesday's Washington Post. Not only that, "the importation of prescription drugs also means spoiled, adulterated, impotent or subpotent medicines making their way into American medicine cabinets." But critics believe they're simply covering up for price-gouging, and have adapted the amendment to allow for greater FDA screening. And in a sharp back-at-ya, Senators James Jeffords (R-Vt.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) have added language to the amendment that would allow American pharmacists and wholesalers to import medicines previously exported by U.S. drug companies - in other words, to permit American consumers to buy the drugs...