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DoJ Going After Makers of Dietary Supplement (reuters.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-natural-justice dept.

schwit1 writes: Several federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, have announced criminal and civil actions related to unlawful advertising and sale of dietary supplements. "Six executives with USPlabs LLC and a related company, S.K. Laboratories, face criminal charges related to the sale of unlawful dietary supplements. Four were arrested on Tuesday and two are expected to surrender, the Justice department said. The indictment says that USPlabs used a synthetic stimulant manufactured in China to make Jack3d and OxyElite Pro but told retailers that the supplements were made from plant extracts." The FTC is working on this as well, and their press release has more details. The DoJ's case involves "more than 100 makers and marketers" of these supplements. It's about time.

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  1. Consistent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can lie all you want about what the ingredients do, but you can't get away with lying about what they are.

  2. Result of the Idiots Hatch and Harkin by gurps_npc · · Score: 5, Insightful
    All of this came from two morons that believed in Magic. Senator Hatch (R) and Harkins (D) were convinced that the FDA were holding back nutritional supplements simply because they science said they couldn't work. So they carved out an exception allowing vague health claims to be made without the FDA slamming them down.

    This re-created the snake oil industry that the FDA had killed, with but minor regulations preventing extreme claims - and also made it difficult for the FDA to prosecute if the company did make those claims.

    Hatch and Harkin killed more Americans than most Senators, and helped enrich a whole generation of scamsters.

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    excitingthingstodo.blogspot.com
  3. Further Reading by mewsenews · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was an amateur boxer for a few years with no notable accomplishments. One thing I did notice was that supplement companies are COMPLETELY FULL OF SHIT. There is a particularly eye-opening documentary about steroids called "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" where the director creates his own supplement using unknown ingredients and gives it an obscene markup, and they don't even have to list their ingredients. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...