Weight-loss supplements and the FDA Part 2 In the aftermath, both sides are asking (whether) recent regulatory changes have succeeded in making dietary supplements (safer) for U.S. consumers. Is Hydroxycut a repeat of the (blockbuster) weight-loss supplement ephedra, which the FDA banned in 2004 after linking it to more than 100 deaths and (thousands of) illnesses? Or have new federal rules and a 2007 law given government (regulators) the power to intervene before another dietary supplement can become a public health (disaster)? Defenders of the supplements industry say that the (recall) of Hydroxycut demonstrates the agency already has the power to (protect) consumers. "The law's working. This is the way it's (supposed) to happen," says Loren Israelsen, executive director of the United Natural Products Alliance, a trade (association) for supplement makers. "People should anticipate that these things will happen, and that there's now a system in place to (recognize) and (investigate) them."
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