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Keep in mind that FDA controls Rx drug advertising while OTC drug and dietary supplement advertising is under the FTC, not the FDA. While it certainly could happen that whatever action FDA eventually takes on this issue may trigger FTC to publish similar regulations or guidelines, that doesn’t necessarily follow.

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Keep in mind that FDA controls Rx drug advertising while OTC drug and dietary supplement advertising is under the FTC, not the FDA. While it certainly could happen that whatever action FDA eventually takes on this issue may trigger FTC to publish similar regulations or guidelines, that doesn’t necessarily follow.

More government intrusion but then what do you do with the modern equivalent of the snake oil salesman? Maybe we need FDA approval for supplements in order to keep people from taking something that could react with their bodies or with any medication they could be taking.