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Trump's FDA sends warning letters to companies selling chest binders (www.advocate.com)

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Trump's FDA claims that companies selling chest binders have "misbranded" medical devices.

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[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The FDA is happy to regulate clothing, but has zero interest in regulating supplements. For the record, there's plenty of evidence of these unregulated supplements causing actual illness and harm.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not the FDA’s fault. Blame the US Congress for that. Long ago they passed legislation forbidding the FDA from regulating supplements.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 reclassified supplements as food rather than drugs, if anyone's interested. This allowed Herbalife to swoop in and sell unregulated supplements through their MLM which made at least a few people I know sick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_Education_Act_of_1994