Article: FDA prescribes a bitter pill. (plan to make manufacturers of nutritional supplements remove health claims on labels unless verified by the Food and Drug Administration) (includes examination of advocacy for dietary supplements by Art Berg and Dr. Jonathan Wright)

Summary: The Food and Drug Administration may restrict health claims on the labels of nutritional supplements, affecting the dietary routines of millions. Swamped by protests, Congress is considering bills to keep the FDA's hands off such supplements.

Utah resident Art Berg doesn't think much of President Clinton's plan for guaranteeing every American access to health care. After all, he's gotten along fine without health insurance and goes to the doctor only for annual checkups.

"I don't want it, and I don't need it," he states with the kind of self-assurance usually seen in the very young and robustly healthy.

By most people's standards, ...

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