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By Loren Israelsen, President, UNPA

On the third day of the 2015 NBJ Summit, one featured speaker opened his remarks with something like this: “DSHEA is a stupid law. It should never have passed. It has not helped you, and in fact you blew the one chance you had to show you can be trusted as an industry.” 

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By Frank Lampe, VP, Communications & Industry Relations, UNPA

It’s no secret that the dietary supplement industry continues to be the subject of seemingly endless mainstream media reports about “unregulated” industry; references to “snake oil salesmen”; and “ineffective,” “adulterated” and “unsafe” products, among a host of other transgressions, real or imagined.

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By Loren Israelsen, President, UNPA

The recent furor over the New York Attorney General  (NYAG) investigation of herbal dietary supplements has ignited a public (and private) debate over the regulation of supplements. On time, and as expected, the critics called for changes to DSHEA. The supplement industry protested that the test used by the NYAG was bogus. The bully pulpit power of the establishment press, i.e., the New York Times, was on display, as was the farcical and lobotomized regurgitation of the original NYT story via social media.

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