Health Benefits Claimed On Nearly 70% Of Supplements Sampled In FDA Study
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Almost 70% of 2,997 dietary supplement products statistically sampled from retail, catalog and Internet sources contained statements about claimed benefits, an FDA-commissioned survey says.
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