Comment · Thu, October 5, 2017 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Why are supplements not regulated?
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bangbangIshotmyself · 0 points
Hi,
Why aren't supplements regulated by the FDA? It seems to me, with more news of people overdosing on supplements and dying due to imoure supplements, that they should be regulated by something. As a fact nearly every supplement we take is a drug, the rest are food. Just bacuse they are present in leaves and maybe ingested through tea instead of a pill(though many supplements are now in pills) doesn't mean it isn't a drug.
Assuming you agree, what can we do about this? I understand the industry is kinda sorting itself with third party tsting and people trying to only support clean brands, but it isn't fully working. It still obviously needs some degree of regulation. How would you think we could achieve that? Any way to get a bill into congress? Any ideas? (Obviously this is written about the USA in mind, other countries should regulate supplements as well, I just don't know as much about their regulatory agencies nor their government)
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
with more news of people overdosing on supplements and dying due to imoure supplements, that they should be regulated by something.
There are ZERO reported cases of death from dietary supplements each year in the United States. ZERO
Page 1080 and 1081. They have not posted 2016 yet, but you can look back at 2014 as well.
Or 2013...
None. Zero deaths from dietary supplements reported by the American Association of Poison Control Centers. However, there are 128,000 deaths reported each year due to prescription drugs, and that's FDA regulated. Also, the FDA certainly does regulate the supplement industry. There are hundreds of rules that need to be followed. They just do not regulate it as crazily as they do the drug industry. Why would we want the government to step in and increase regulation in an industry that kills zero people every year, just to make it more like an industry that kills over 128,000?!?