The Dietary Supplement Market US FDA Is Regulating Isn’t Your 1994 DSHEA Version
Executive Summary
“In the last 30 years, we've seen this sort of explosion, and it's not just more products and more sales. We're talking about more complex products,” says Cara Welch, FDA Office of Dietary Supplement Programs director. “Today's products are not the products from 1994.”
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