Note to vitamin gobblers
By Merrill Goozner
Dr. Paul Offit, the chief of the infectious diseases division of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, skewered the mega-vitamin industry in an article in the Sunday New York Times.
Just as enlightening as his review of the science—downing high doses of antioxidants may be neutralizing cancer-fighting oxidants, he suggests—was his recounting of Congress' role in preventing the 1970s Food and Drug Administration from regulating the over-the-counter vitamin industry. A former FDA legal counsel called it “the most humiliating defeat” in the agency's history. Worth reading.
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