Supplements for Athletes Draw Alert From F.D.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/health/nutrition/29drug.html?scp=1&sq=warning%20by%20fda&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Subject: re: Supplements for Athletes Draw Alert From F.D.A.
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To the Editor:

In 1994, Congress created a class of materials that are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration neither as foods nor as drugs. These "nutritional supplements" are now a multi-billion dollar industry with a powerful lobby. Congress made a mistake. Materials claiming medical benefit should be regulated as drugs. Anything else sold to be ingested should be regulated as food. This third category--however profitable--never made sense.

Barry Levine