Regulation of dietary supplements should focus less on whether vitamins, minerals, and herbal extracts actually do what advocates claim and more on whether they are safe to take, a public health expert and former regulator says.
The market for dietary supplements is riddled with unsafe products that may be spiked with pharmaceuticals, poorly manufactured, or even missing ingredients listed on the bottle, says Joshua M. Sharfstein, former Food and Drug Administration principal deputy commissioner.
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