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I'm torn on this. On one hand, I don't want an insane amount of regulation where a supplement has to go through three rounds of clinical trials and only big pharma will be able to afford bringing them to market. On the other hand, there's some REALLY BAD supplements out there and that's a huge concern to me as well.

What's your feeling Hugh?

Others opinions?
 
"I don't want an insane amount of regulation where a supplement has to go through three rounds of clinical trials and only big pharma will be able to afford bringing them to market."

"there's some REALLY BAD supplements out there and that's a huge concern to me as well."

You summed it up perfectly David.
 
That could be bad and good, the problem is the gov does not have a clue how to make it work so that the good supplements can get an OK and the bad stuff gets pulled.
 
The result will just be that people get it from another source, a source that is less reliable. Same story with inhibition of cannabis. Since I live in Belgium I can use cannabis without issues, and the quality is way higher than in other countries where they put people in jail for it. The quality being higher is a direct result of open competition.

Instead of tackling vitamins or caffein, start asking why 83% of the milk supply is infected with M. Paratuberculosis. I'm going to write him a mail and ask.
 
Reading up on this, he doesn't seem to be against supplements, but in favor of regulation of supplements, which are 2 completely different things. I am 100% for regulation on supplements, so companies have to show what's in their product.

All he asks is that the maker of the product is forced to tell what is in the product, that the label is correct and that every product is registered. That is actually great, he is not planning to pull anything, only things that do not want to register their products and he wants to pull the products that are wrongly labeled.
 
I don't know, the way crony capitalism has been working (pardon the pun), I don't know who I am willing to trust on regulation of anything much less supplements. Seems like the one with the biggest bank roll gets the most attention in Washington these days. Ethics be damn.
Jim
 
I work for the government (in a health-related capacity), but I don't need the first-hand experience to tell you that the government does a fairly horrible job at regulating most things health-related. Yes, there are some bad supplements out there. But I would rather have the ability to do my own research and weed out the good from the bad myself. I do not want the government making these decisions for me.
 
I forgot to mention in my previous remarks about how valuable I find this Forum for helping to determine what supplements are worthwhile and ones that should be steered clear of. This kind of informed regulation counts the most to me and I'll turn to you guys before any faceless, nameless bunch of misinformed bunch of beaurocrats. Just a little promo for the Crohn's Forum and all the good you guys are doing.
Jim
 
The national poison data system reports zero deaths from any kind of supplement in 2008.

That compares to about 100,000 deaths annually for pharmaceutical products.

About 15,000 per year for NSAID drugs alone.

Where should the focus be concerning safety?

Dan
 

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