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Non-Tech : Bill Wexler's Dog Pound
REFR 1.847-1.2%Nov 14 9:30 AM EST
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To: BDR who wrote (5889)1/6/2000 10:41:00 AM
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This could make shorting outright frauds more difficult:
newsday.com
Limits Eased on Supplement Claims

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government
eased some restrictions on dietary
supplements Wednesday, saying the
products can legally claim to treat a
variety of symptoms -- from morning
sickness to memory loss -- that are
considered common passages of life.
...
The FDA proposed in 1998 that
supplements cannot even imply that they
diagnose, treat, prevent or cure a disease
or definitive disease symptom. But the
agency received thousands of letters,
from the supplements industry and
consumers, complaining that was too
strict.

So Wednesday, the FDA relented a little:
Supplements will be allowed to claim to
help ``common conditions' associated
with ``passages of life' such as
pregnancy, menopause, adolescence and
aging -- but clear diseases and serious
symptoms are still off-limits.

That means supplements could claim to
ease ordinary morning sickness or the
common leg swelling of late pregnancy,
but not toxemia or other serious
pregnancy complications. They could claim
to treat teen-age acne and menopausal
hot flashes. They could claim to treat
muscle pain -- but not joint pain because
that's a classic symptom of arthritis,
clearly a disease. They could claim to treat
"mild memory loss associated with aging"-- but not real dementia.
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