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Article: The FDA's Guide to Dietary Supplements.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Set between a Chinese restaurant and a pizza and "sub" sandwich eatery, a Rockville, Maryland, health-food store offers yet another brand of edible items: bottled herbs like cat's claw, dandelion root, and blessed thistle; vitamins and minerals in varying doses; and herbal and nutrient concoctions whose labels carry claims about relieving pain, "energizing" and "detoxifying" the body, or providing "guaranteed results."
With all the business they generate--$6.5 billion alone in 1996--consumers still ask questions about dietary supplements: Can their claims be trusted? Are they safe? Does the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approve them?
Many of these ...