For now.
I do like that the FDA will finally be able to make tests of vitamins and other “health supplements”. The promoters have had no regulation at all. As Consumer Reports has found, what is on the label is often nowhere near what is in the bottle.
And like Consumer Reports has shown, it doesn't require government legislation to do that. Any private company can do a business providing that service without the nannystate watching over us.
Do you think the government can do a better job than private industry? Has the government ever been able to do a better job at anything than private industry? They couldn't even run the post office and can't run the DMV. And you think they can do a good job *protecting* our food?!?!
As we depend on gov’t to assure that our meat, poultry, fish are safe to eat, and our medicines are safe, it is reasonable to have an independent review of safety in “dietary supplements”.
It's failed miserably at that. How many medicines has the FDA approved that have had to be taken off the market because of fatal side effects? Can you say *Vioxx*? Can you say *Merck*?
Keeping a watch on the predatory charlatans is important.
And how long before you become labeled a predatory charlatan?
Hey, noob, that kind of advocating for federal government control is NOT going to go over well on this site. You are on the wrong board to push that kind of agenda.
Try here....
You'll like DU.
I’m not sure if either the government or private industry can do a better job. Greed has a way of corrupting everything and after Wall Street 2008 I refuse to lock into any ideology that one is better than the other.
What we need is a big axe that can take the head off the first one that prefers dishonesty over ethics. To enforce that we need oversight of each. When money is involved corruption will inevitably result and the victims are often those most gullible as in elderly.
So no I will never buy a philosophy that private industry is without its own set of problems and agree that greed is always the catalyst.
I could go either way as long as there is a means to enforce justice and that those who cross the line of ethics will pay with their head in a basket. That would solve many of the problems we have today where the guilty go unpunished. I don’t trust politicians to prosecute.