Criminals head dietary companies
An investigation by USA today ,Reporter Alison Young revealed that a wide array of dietary supplement companies selling products dangerously spiked with hidden pharmacenticals are headed by executives with criminal backgrounds and run -in with regulators .They are convicted falons ,thieves ,drug addicts narcotic sellers and mere ,the reporting revealed.
And once they enter the lucrative 30 billion dollar a year supplement business ,almost any thing goes .Criminals turned supplement enterprenuers have repeatedly put risky products on the market through a changing series of companies as overwhelmed regulators struggle to keep up .Their pills and powders have inclined everything from a sleep aid laced with a powerful antipsychotic drugs ,to a methampetamine, like chemical never before tested on peopple.
Alison young laid bare the hazards pose by dietary supplement taken by thousands of American consumers .Young followed supplement makers through the court and to Mexico ,spoke the truth to big distributors like Walmart ,Government regulators and other in the industry ,and demonstrated that there is little effective control over the contemt of highly popular and widely distributed supplement .And she got the result ;Welmart was removed ,an energy supplement ,from it's shelves .Florida investigators are looking into the past of some of the supplememt makers ,the industry has also taken action. Young 's work represent the best in journalism .
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And once they enter the lucrative 30 billion dollar a year supplement business ,almost any thing goes .Criminals turned supplement enterprenuers have repeatedly put risky products on the market through a changing series of companies as overwhelmed regulators struggle to keep up .Their pills and powders have inclined everything from a sleep aid laced with a powerful antipsychotic drugs ,to a methampetamine, like chemical never before tested on peopple.
Alison young laid bare the hazards pose by dietary supplement taken by thousands of American consumers .Young followed supplement makers through the court and to Mexico ,spoke the truth to big distributors like Walmart ,Government regulators and other in the industry ,and demonstrated that there is little effective control over the contemt of highly popular and widely distributed supplement .And she got the result ;Welmart was removed ,an energy supplement ,from it's shelves .Florida investigators are looking into the past of some of the supplememt makers ,the industry has also taken action. Young 's work represent the best in journalism .
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