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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie

USA
4826 Posts

Posted - 06/22/2007 :  14:48:51  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message  Reply with Quote
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070622/ap_on_he_me/dietary_supplements

FDA requires vitamin and herbal supplement manufacturers to verify ingredients.

Boo-yah!


Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils

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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
13477 Posts

Posted - 06/22/2007 :  16:37:54   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
It's a step in the right direction, for a change.

I like this provision:

It also includes requirements for record keeping and handling consumer complaints.



Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

Genetic Literacy Project
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HalfMooner
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Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 06/22/2007 :  17:25:04   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
And here I was, just assuming that the supplement industry did all these things all along. Thanks for yet another skeptical lesson, V_D!


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
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Trish
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USA
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Posted - 06/23/2007 :  23:28:10   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Trish a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Half, Centrum was smacked by the FDA for rat feces contamination in their product. They were required for 5 years to show proof of following cGMP followed by the pharmaceuticals.
Nice to see the rest must follow suit.

...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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