Supplement Safety, Content Oversight Deemed Inadequate By 60% In Surveys
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Government regulation of dietary supplement safety is considered insufficient by nearly 60% of combined participants in several national surveys, researchers report in the March 26 Archives of Internal Medicine.
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