Weight-loss supplements and the FDA Part 3 Critics cite the Hydroxycut case as (evidence) that the FDA's powers over dietary supplements need to be (expanded). New York University biochemist Dr. Gerald Weissmann (says) little has changed since the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act [DSHEA] of 1994 (exempted) a wide range of plants, oils, enzymes and (vitamins) from the kind of government oversight applied to drugs. "These aren't (dietary) supplements, they are drugs," Weissmann says. Unless these often potent substances are brought under (stricter) controls, he adds, "people can get hurt." FDA approvals thin With 2 in 3 American adults (overweight) and 1 in 3 obese, such controversies are likely to continue.
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