Are Supplements Regulated? Yes. Here's How.

Read the news these days, and it can seem like the dietary supplement industry is basically the Wild West. The overall narrative has been beaten into our heads so many times, the script basically writes itself: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the sheriff, powerless against the massive, villainous industry selling nothing but untested, largely tainted products. Pick up that tub of protein or creatine, innocent townspeople, and you get what's coming to you.

Is the dietary supplement industry filled with angels? Of course not, but neither is any industry. But if you listen to the talking heads, you see the same talking points repeating as frequently as Friends reruns on cable. Here's the basic pattern:  

• Dietary supplements aren't regulated
• They're all at risk of containing unsafe or banned substances
• The existing laws strip the FDA of its power to protect consumers
• No products or brands can be trusted to do what they say
• Dietary supplements as a whole don't work at...

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