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Report: FDA lacks info on supplements

By Dickinson, James G
Publication: Medical Marketing and Media
Date: Friday, June 1 2001

A Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General's report on dietary supplements said in April that the FDA is hampered in its role as consumer safeguard because of a lack of information about the products. The Inspector General said that the lack of industry oversight puts consumers at

risk because the FDA was unable to determine ingredients in 32 percent of products mentioned in adverse event reports. And, while the FDA received 470 reports of bad reactions to dietary supplements in a recent year, the nation's poison centers treated 13,000 cases.

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