Sean Moloughney, Editor05.26.15
HBO’s “Real Sports” aired a segment on May 19 titled “In Harms Way,” focusing on the deaths of U.S. military service members who were taking products marketed as a dietary supplement that contained 1,3-dimethylamylamine (DMAA), which FDA removed from the market in 2013.
The report criticized the supplement industry, characterizing it as unregulated, or under-regulated, and suggested industry advocate Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has been preventing the supplement industry from being regulated.
In an editorial published in the Salt Lake Tribune, Daniel Fabricant, president and CEO of the Natural Products Association and former director of FDA’s Division of Dietary Supplement Programs, reiterated that the industry is indeed regulated and HBO’s reporting was sensational in nature.
“DMAA, the ingredient the HBO story suggests was responsible for the tragic fatalities despite an official Department of Defense review that concluded otherwise, was o
The report criticized the supplement industry, characterizing it as unregulated, or under-regulated, and suggested industry advocate Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has been preventing the supplement industry from being regulated.
In an editorial published in the Salt Lake Tribune, Daniel Fabricant, president and CEO of the Natural Products Association and former director of FDA’s Division of Dietary Supplement Programs, reiterated that the industry is indeed regulated and HBO’s reporting was sensational in nature.
“DMAA, the ingredient the HBO story suggests was responsible for the tragic fatalities despite an official Department of Defense review that concluded otherwise, was o
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