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1976
, the United States passed a bill that prevented the
FDA from
regulating high-dose vitamin supplements.many have
the FDA
"threatening people to choose and buy 'harmless dietary supplements'." They won, but they didn't realize that it was the
FDA, not the health food manufacturer, that was trying
to protect them in their quest for health and consumer protection.years later,

' chief adviser,
peter Barton Hutt
, wrote that it was the "most humiliating failure" in the agency's history.and the game between science and business, this is not the first time, and it is far from the last.
[1]Lime
,
, and
sepsislong before vitamins were actually found, people realized that certain foods kept them healthy. The earliest records appeared on Sumerite slates; the ancient Egyptians clearly recorded the consumption of animal livers to treat night blindness; and during the Renaissance, the advent of the Great Sea age led many crew members to become ill for long periods of time without access to fresh fruits and vegetables.important point in
1747
, a Scottish surgeon,
James Lind
, discovered that citrus foods such as
lemon and lime
could be used to treat sep
sis
. This is the first clinical trial ever conducted. As the tests were carried out in the Royal Navy, the sailors were given a

Ya.James LindNow we know that these citrus fruits are rich in vitamin
C
,
VC
is the cause of sepsis. But vitamin C
not
the first confirmed vitamin, and even the word vitamin itself did not appear until nearly a hundred years later."Amine of Life"In 1912
, Polish biochemist
Casimir Funk
first introduced the term
Vitamin
) and successfully extracted the active substance (later proven to be vitamin
B3
). He also proposed an important hypothesis that other diseases, such as rickets, brown skin disease, celiac disease and scurva, could also be cured by vitamins.first
Funk
named the vitamin
Vitamine
. Let's take a look at the word, the prefix "
vit-
" means "life" and "
amine
" means "amine".
Funk
that all vitamins are aminoamines and are key substances in life.Vitamins are good for this important prefix. Vitamin

A and night blindness; vitamin
D
and brown skin disease; vitamin
B1
and foot gas disease; vitamin
C
and sepsis... Important discoveries followed, and in the decades that followed, there were no fewer than ten vitamin-related Nobel Prizes.the significance of vitamins to life is not lost, later studies have proved that vitamins are not all amines, so

e
" was removed, vitamins officially became
vitamin
."As of today, the scientific community has identified
13,
essential vitamins for the human body, without which our bodies will not function properly;Intercepted from the
wiki
encyclopto from the life essence of food think that once the elements of radon were discovered, it quickly became a fashionable additive, whether it is food or cosmetics, a variety of products as long as the side of the dragonfly, will immediately become the darling of society. "The Essence of Life" naturally
such as vitamins, which are derived from food, are immediately sought after.Above, a poster issued by
.S
Department of Agriculture in 1917. The government's propaganda is still a "hot spot" for vitamins, not to mention the clever businessmen? Donuts, chocolate, all kinds of food whether necessary or not, to add vitamins as a selling point, society has a healthy wind.In
,
FDA
was established and the Pure Food and Drug Act was published, requiring drugs to print active ingredients on packaging and not to be less pure than the U.S. Pharmacopeia or national prescription set.with the development of the times, more and more kinds of goods, the law obviously has some content can not meet the regulatory needs.In 1937 and
, the outbreak of large-scale sulfonamide poisoning, the U.S. Government urgently introduced the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
FDCA


, giving
FDA
greater regulatory powers and obligations, food, drugs, cosmetics, additives and medical devices, all have more reliable safety management.a humiliating failure a wide variety of dietary supplements have been on the market for decades. At this time, dietary supplements have included vitamins, proteins, trace mineral elements and other major categories. Under the promotion of merchants, these supplements have become
"health" of the united states.consumers don't realize that they don't
as the propaganda says.This is an ad from
1946
, which shows that the line between food and supplements is still very blurred 1972

12
, to prevent people from overeaching vitamins,
FDA
has announced plans to include dietary supplements that exceed the recommended daily intake (
RDAs
)
150%
in "over-the-counter medicines" and manufacturers must provide reliable data on their safety. High doses
vitamin
, vitamin
D
and folic acid will require a doctor's prescription.from
"health food" to "drugs", which has too much impact on consumers' senses.these measures are based entirely on the research of scientific institutions, but health food practitioners who have been touched by the benefits will not sit idly by. Practitioners have accused
fda
, saying the rule threatens people's right to buy "harmless food supplements." The

NHF
) organized a letter-writing campaign, with more than a million letters sent to Congress urging legislation to block
FDA
regulations.those years, another infamous event occurred
watergate. But judging by the number of letters congressmen receive, the public is far more concerned
than Nixon
.In
1937, the first multivitamin product, not known as Amtrak August


, 1974
August
,
, a hearing was held, and Democratic Senator
William Proxmire
proposed a bill to prevent the
FDA
from regulating high doses of vitamins.lawyer
side
the FDA's proposal tried to explain the dangers of the draft. The lawyer placed eight melons in front of him and said, "Hami melons are a good source of vitamin
C
, and if you eat these eight, you can take about
1,000
mg of vitamin
C
." But two small pills contain the same amount of
VC
. If the draft is passed, a pill could contain as many, or even twice, three, and twenty times as many
VC
. And you don't stop naturally when you eat because you're full. Morethan a month later, the
Proxmire
was passed by
81
to
10
and became law in

1976.decades later,

Barton Hutt,
's chief adviser, wrote that it was the
"most humiliating failure" in the agency's history.'s modern, health-focused, modern people are used to studying nutrition labels carefully before buying a product, but this little form is very young. The vitamin chocolate advertisement that appeared earlier also has a table with nutritional content, but this form is self-labeled by the merchant for publicity purposes, the content is not standardized, nor is it regulatory. The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (
NLEA
) came into effect at the end of
1990, and the
FDA
has developed uniform nutrition labels to prevent confusion in the content of business labels and to help consumers choose their products. Labels make it mandatory to label several types of essential nutrients and the need to limit the amount of substances ingested. bill has sparked protests from dietary supplement advocates. Utah Congressman
Orrin Hatch
declared that he had "received information from consumers and practitioners in his home state" that the
FDA
could "shut down any business."
Hatch
a draft health freedom bill to prevent
from
strictly regulating dietary supplements. ,
Hatch
failed to pass a parliamentary vote, but it succeeded in persuading Congress to delay the regulation of dietary supplements by a year until another law was introduced in
1994
. this is the well-known Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act


DSHEA
. The DSHEA
significant changes in the management of dietary supplements, which can be said to have led directly to the current market turmoil. first, according to
DSHEA
, dietary supplements have been extended to natural extracts, and many herbs and plant extracts have become regular commodities on the shelves. second,
DSHEA
allows manufacturers to make health statements about how the ingredients of the product affect the structure or function of the body, such as "calcium enhances bones." But claims that a disease can be treated or cured are against the law, such as "lowering cholesterol" or "treating heart disease," and manufacturers need to make disclaimers informing consumers that the product is not intended to diagnose, treat or prevent any disease. addition, in addition to calcium, folic acid and a few other ingredients, manufacturers make health statements at the same time, but also need to label the efficacy has not been
fda
evaluation. , then, the most important part of the dietary supplement market no longer needs
the FDA
reviewed.
1994 News DSHEA According to
DSHEA
, the approval of
FDA
is not required for the sale of dietary supplements on the market, and
FDA
has no right to review the safety and effectiveness of the product until the product is officially sold.
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