The FDA lacks the power to regulate the $A48.21 billion vitamin and supplement industry. Supplements send thousands of people to the emergency room each year and can be contaminated with banned drugs or bacteria. Pills that advertise their ability to help with weight loss or muscle building are typically the riskiest of the supplements, experts say. The supplement industry is still running strong, fuelled by companies like Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop. When Pouya Jamshidi, a resident at Weill Cornell Medical College, delivered his first baby, the doctor on call told him to take the newborn away from its mother. The baby, a healthy girl with mocha-pink skin and a powerful set of lungs, was being quarantined. In the middle of the pregnancy, her mother had come down with tuberculosis. She’d contracted the contagious lung infection in her teens, and the illness came back despite preventative antibiotics and regular screenings. The cause: a popular herbal supplement called St. John’s wort. “The trouble is most people don’t consider it a medication because you don’t need a prescription for it, and so she didn’t tell us,” Jamshidi told Business Insider. St. John’s wort is one of the most popular herbal supplements sold in the… Read full this story
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