It makes sense to update on supplement actually containing what they claim they contain
The information landscape is very bad and reading newspaper articles does not allow a normal person to understand whether or not claims about what supplements contain are true or false. Marketing from the review companies further muddies the information landscape so that a lot of people who think they know what’s going on don’t
One very interesting tale of a regulation failure was the Ranbaxy saga. The FDA already was pretty bad at the case, but it shows the kind of problems that a regulatory agency is supposed to solve.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/how-trustworthy-are-supplements discusses supplements and concludes the issue is nowhere near as bad as claimed.
There are two main issues here:
It makes sense to update on supplement actually containing what they claim they contain
The information landscape is very bad and reading newspaper articles does not allow a normal person to understand whether or not claims about what supplements contain are true or false. Marketing from the review companies further muddies the information landscape so that a lot of people who think they know what’s going on don’t
One very interesting tale of a regulation failure was the Ranbaxy saga. The FDA already was pretty bad at the case, but it shows the kind of problems that a regulatory agency is supposed to solve.