Supplements With Banned Ingredients Still on the Market, Research Finds
There has been a lot of debate over how effective nutritional supplements really are when it comes to weight loss or health perks, but consumers have a reasonable expectation that anything sold in drugstores is at least safe to take. New research published today, however, shows that that may not always be the case. Multiple supplements with banned ingredients remain on store shelves even after warnings issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and often, the dangerous ingredients are not even listed on the labels, making them very difficult to avoid.While nutritional supplements look like any other pill, they are classified as food and not medicine by the FDA, which means they’re not subject to the same scrutiny as even over-the-counter drugs. When the FDA does find something…