Food and Drug Administration ignored untold numbers of adverse events, including deaths, regulators finally announced in February 2019 that they will increase oversight of the dietary supplements industry
Counterfeit pharmaceuticals kill hundreds of thousands of people every year
Dietary supplements are big business. Three out of four Americans take one or more on a regular basis, and for older Americans the fraction is four out of five. One in three children also takes supplements. The estimated number of supplement products increased form 4,000 in 1994 to 50,000-80,000 today. Out of pocket expenditures for herbal and complementary nutritional products are about $50 billion, reports Henry Miller. 1
One of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated on health conscious American consumers is the hype and outright fraud of dietary supplements that don't work and are sometimes dangerous.