Civil laws clean up the illicit sports supplement marketplace as FDA is overwhelmed, underfunded
Robert Tauler, in this guest column for Law360, spelled out how the illegal and illicit sports supplement business works, where the gaps are in criminally investigating and prosecuting companies that ignore federal rules to push poisons to an unsuspecting public.
“Until these dangerous substances are eliminated from the marketplace, laws that govern competition in the marketplace will remain the strongest weapon to protect consumers and hapless teenagers alike,” Tauler wrote. “The teenagers might be disappointed they are not seeing the “explosive gains” they want right away, but parents will happily exchange dangerous shortcuts to bigger muscles for the comfort that comes from knowing their child is staying drugfree.”
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