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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: 1321 Corralling Food Supplements
Description: Gretchen DuBeau, Executive and Legal Director, Alliance for Natural Health
Do they not want our food to be our medicine?
Hippocrates is said to have said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine by thy food.”
In 1994, those who believed food should be medicine, and medicine should be food, gathered in Washington, DC, to fight back an effort by the pharmaceutical industry to register food supplements.
Their effort resulted in the Dietary Supplement and Education Act, or “DSHEA”, which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
What DSHEA did, in...