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Article: CRN to defend supp weight loss claims.
- Article from:
- Nutraceuticals International
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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In response to a joint US citizen's petition filed by the American Dietetic Association, The Obesity Society, Shaping America's Health and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, which asks the Food and Drug Administration to treat weight loss claims for dietary supplements as disease claims, the Council for Responsible Nutrition's chief executive, Steve Mister, said that the "CRN plans to oppose this petition to re-classify weight loss claims as either disease claims or health claims requiring FDA approval."
He continued: "we believe weight ...