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by im3w1l 2195 days ago
There have been way too many scandals around supplement purity for me to buy into his narrative. Like if someone told me a given brand of fish oil supplements contained 10% of the stated dose, was rancid and full of heavy metals I wouldn't be the least surprised.

But if a fish oil medicine had those issues, I would be shocked, because the consequences for the guilty party would be much bigger, a huge circus of lawsuits and people losing their licenses. That's how I imagine it anyway.

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IMO we need the FDA to start caring about supplements. They should at least be allowed to nail companies straight-up lying about dosages. Hell, classify them as food and they probably could.
You can thank Orrin Hatch for the current dumpster fire of a situation we find ourselves in. Lots of "supplement" MLMs and such in Utah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_...

If it's an fda approved drug, I'd be shocked. You see how strictly they're coming down on contamination in the antacid space. If it was a supplement calling itself a medicine with a "these statements have not been evaluated by the FDA" label, then I'd be surprised if it actually did contain what it says it does, and do what it promises to do