Bodybuilding.com Hoists Its Regulatory Experience As Lesson For Compliance
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Highlighting dietary supplement sector's self-regulation at a recent supplement industry regulatory conference, the sports nutrition product marketer's chief counsel Bill Carter described his experience in federal court in 2012. He suggested some supplement firms, like Bodybuilding.com previously, don't consider themselves likely to incur litigation or criminal charges linked to regulatory problems when they learn about other businesses that have. "Just because you don't hear about a lot of FDA's office of Criminal Investigations doesn't mean they're not active," he said.
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