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Regulation of dietary supplements, including the distinction between health claims and structure/function claims
Public reporting shows widespread consumer complaints and scam allegations about products sold as “LipoLess” or “Lipoless,” and warnings that lipotropic supplements can cause gastrointestinal or other...
Neurocept is marketed as a next‑generation brain‑health supplement that, according to press releases, prioritizes "neural efficiency, oxygenation, and cellular protection" to support focus, memory and...
Available reporting mostly characterizes ProZenith as a natural, generally well‑tolerated dietary supplement with no widely reported serious long‑term adverse effects, while flagging short‑term digest...
Regulatory sources and consumer-protection authorities treat Neurocept as an unapproved supplement with potential for clinically meaningful interactions and consumer risk, while manufacturer summaries...
Health Canada now permits standardized green tea extract (GTE; EGCG/catechins) as a supplemental ingredient but requires compositional limits and explicit cautionary labelling to reduce liver‑injury r...
Consumers shopping for diet supplements online navigate a marketplace regulated more like food than medicine, where federal agencies can warn, recall, and police advertising but generally do not preap...
Consumers seeking to verify the safety and ingredient doses in cognitive supplements should treat products as post-market items that require detective work: read the Supplement Facts and label claims,...
Regulatory standards for are a patchwork: manufacturers may market products as without FDA pre‑approval, but they must follow labeling rules, report adverse events, and avoid illegal disease claims — ...
There is no record in the provided reporting of the , the , or named consumer‑protection groups issuing a formal warning, recall, or enforcement action specifically targeting ; the available sources s...
Federal records show that products marketed as “” or very similar names have been the subject of public warnings and laboratory analyses: the agency issued a specific public notification about in 2014...
Supplements and alternative‑medicine sellers leveraged viral diabetes misinformation to convert fear and demand into revenue by promoting unproven “cures,” advertising counterfeit or compounded lookal...
Regulatory testing and academic reviews show that undeclared prescription drugs and banned stimulants are a recurring problem in weight‑loss supplements: hundreds of tainted products have been identif...
Evidence from toxicology reviews, regulatory assessments, clinical trials, and consumer reports shows both documented concerns and contrasting safety data about combinations of synephrine and caffeine...
Heal N Soothe is a widely marketed dietary supplement for joint pain that combines systemic enzymes and herbal extracts and, according to a range of consumer reviews and press pieces, produces benefit...
Consumers who want to verify the exact Supplement Facts and the manufacturer of an online nootropic should treat labels and marketing copy as starting points, not proof: the best verification pathway ...
Celebrity and influencer endorsements are a staple of dietary supplement marketing because fame confers trust, attention and perceived expertise, but the practice repeatedly collides with scientific g...
Fact-checkers verify celebrity endorsements for dietary supplements by tracing the claim back to primary evidence, checking legal and platform disclosure rules, and testing the product and scientific ...
Celebrities who promote dietary supplements fall squarely under the FTC’s truth-in-advertising rules for endorsements and under FDA rules when their statements cross into product labeling or disease c...
Consumers who experience adverse reactions to dietary supplements should stop using the product, seek medical care, and report the event to the FDA through the Safety Reporting Portal or MedWatch so r...
The FDA has repeatedly identified and sought removal of weight‑loss supplements that contain undeclared prescription drugs or unapproved chemicals, and recent nationwide recalls include specific produ...