Feds crack down on supplement industry, go after deceptive products

DOJ pursuing criminal and civil cases against more than 100 makers and marketers


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darkwiz[/url]":146n77nf]I'm starting to wonder if the government really is getting tips from John Oliver, or vice versa.

It'd be nice to think so, but the FIFA indictments followed a 3 year investigation and used a number of highly-placed informants well before the Oliver report. In the cases they're discussing here, legal action started a year ago in Nov 2014.

Good point, but wasn't the John Oliver episode on supplements about a year ago?

 

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darkwiz[/url]":1bhegqo5]I'm starting to wonder if the government really is getting tips from John Oliver, or vice versa.

John Oliver goes on a rant about FIFA and Sepp Blatter - FBI investigates and prosecutes FIFA
John Oliver goes on a rant about Dr. Oz and nutritional supplements - now this.

No, John Oliver is just what happens when you have a media that isn't owned by corporations and actually does investigative journalism.

HBO is a subsidiary of Time Warner, so it's owned by corporations about as much as CNN.

Yeah, I think their biggest freedom is that don't have to be afraid of scarring away advertisers.

 

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Plus the fact that the FDA can't go after homeopathy. The same law that created the FDA requires them to accept anything in the homeopathic pharmacopoeia as a working medicine.

O RLY?
I just want to understand the enemy (quackery) better: Could you please show me some legal text that shows exactly that?

It is called the Food, Drug & Cosmetic act. Crafted in 1938. It is an update of the 1096 act that created the front runner of the FDA (that one was created in a reorganization in 1390). It gave the FDA actual regulatory powers.
Sections 201(g) and 201(j) define the two pharmacopoeias that can be used. The one regulated by the FDA and which requires the clinical trial process to get approved. The other (the homeopathic one) regulated by a bunch of volunteer quacks.
link to Title 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER 9 - FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT
SUBCHAPTER II - DEFINITIONS

Thank you. All I can say is
What kind of fucked up shit is that?!

In Europe with much stricter limits on free speech, it is for example forbidden to give medical advice without a license. And quacks get, at least sometimes, thrown into jail for exactly that reason. In addition to charges for manslaughter/bodily attack ...

Europe has as free or freeer speech than most places in the US. And in the US, malpractice, fraud, impersonating a doctor and gross negligence also crimes. Most quacks get out of it by arguing they truly believe in what they do, and lying in court about how explicit they make to patients that what they is medically proven to be useless.