More Dietary Supplement Regulation Needed

[BrklynLiberal]

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1899797/more_dietary_supplement_regulation_needed/

A popular consumer magazine is calling for greater U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation of dietary supplements following a study of potentially harmful ingredients commonly found in over-the-counter products that could cause cardiovascular, liver, and kidney problems.

The study was carried out by Consumer Reports and published Tuesday on their website.

"We Americans do love our dietary supplements. More than half of the adult population have taken them to stay healthy, lose weight, gain an edge in sports or in the bedroom, and avoid using prescription drugs," the report says. "What consumers might not realize, though, is that supplement manufacturers routinely, and legally, sell their products without first having to demonstrate that they are safe and effective. The Food and Drug Administration has not made full use of even the meager authority granted it by the industry-friendly 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)."

The report focuses largely on twelve specific supplement ingredients that the Consumer Reports staff says should be avoided because of possible health risks. Those twelve ingredients are aconite, bitter orange, chaparral, colloidal silver, coltsfoot, comfrey, country mallow, germanium, greater celandine, kava, lobelia, and yohimbe
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hmmmm Wonder how much testing CU has done on Prescription drugs?
What about the FDA approved drugs that have killed people???
If the supplement producers were in bed with the FDA like Big Pharma, CU would not even be doing tests on them...

Vioxx
Zelnorm
Baycol
Bextra
Hismana
Resulin
Avandia
Celebrex

Leave it to a personal injury law site to list them all...
http://www.personalinjurylawyeramerica.com/medical/drugs.htm


http://www.the7thfire.com/health_and_nutrition/Prescription_drugs_deaths.htm

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Drugs that cause worst reactions - Heart medications. blood thinners, and chemotherapeutic agents for cancer. Most common cause of death- liver or kidney failure, heart rhythm problems, bone marrow destruction.

More than 2 million Americans become seriously ill every year because of toxic reactions to correctly prescribed medicines taken properly, and 106.000 die from those reactions, a new study concludes. That surprisingly high number makes drug side effects at least the sixth, and perhaps even the fourth, most common cause of death in this country. The analysis, the largest and most complete of its kind, suggests that one in 15 hospital patients in the United States can expect a serious reaction to prescription or over-the-counter medicine. and about 5 percent of these will die from it.
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[LaurenG]

1. I am all for greater regulation so that I'm not swallowing

unknown substances or unknown amounts of whatever it is that I'm taking as a supplement. I don't have a problem with quality control at all. I don't want to have to get a physicians prescription through a pharmacy for b-12 or vitamin c though.

[leftofcool]

3. Oh, but you will..........

The regulation of Vitimin C and other supplements is coming. I am starting to grow my own herbs so I can make my own supplements as needed or wanted without having to go to the health food store. The FDA has been trying to shut down supplements for years. They don't want us to take our drugs, they want us to buy their drugs.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Big Pharma is in control of the FDA, and we WILL be paying thru the nose for

those supplements if they have their way.

[leftofcool]

5. That is so true.

[WingDinger]

2. Three has been a concerted effort forf eons, to make vitamins prescription only

So that we would have to pay the toll. There is a vast difference between pain relief drugs, and vitamins.

[BuddhaGirl]

6. drugs kill far, far, more people than supplements

n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

7. That is for damn sure!!!

[aenasmith]

8. More Dietary Supplement Regulation Needed

Interesting post. Really you have shared very nice information and also the link that gives knowledge about regulations of dietary supplements. The dietary supplements are needed for healthier human and they helps to maintain fitness. You also talked about drugs that are worst for the health and may cause many problems.