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Article: Getting information from FDA. (Food and Drug Administration)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- December 1, 1990
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Getting Information From FDA
A woman called the Food and Drug Administration's office in Orlando, Fla., to thank consumer affairs officer Lynne Isaacs for the nutrition and diet information Isaacs had sent a few weeks before.
"She told me that she was ready for a serious well-balanced diet," Isaacs said. "She had tried all the fad diets and knew they didn't work. Then she admitted there was one fad she had never tried--a product that claims to burn the fat off while you sleep. She said that because she was an insomniac she figured the product would never get a chance to work. Of course that product doesn't work anyway, but I think her reason for not trying ...