Trade Groups Defend Qualified Health Claims Following Critical GAO Report
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Dietary supplement industry stakeholders are defending the use of qualified health claims, which came under fire in a Government Accountability Office report on shortcomings in FDA's food labeling enforcement
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