Masters Swimming and Illegal Supplements

Originally posted by aquageek I agree with you that if these were One-A-Days there might be an issue. However, I was under the impression we were discussing some type of supplement, not a vitamin with some ginseng tossed in. Vitamins are a type of supplement, as is ginseng. Did you not know this? Nutritional supplements are subject to the same kind of regulation that foods are. This means that they are required by law to list their ingredients on the label. (One of the reasons for this requirement, btw, is so that people with food allergies can make sure they don't buy a product to which they're allergic.) Food products and nutritional supplements are not monitored to the degree that pharmaceutical drugs are, but a consumer of such products has a right to expect that all ingredients will be listed on the label, and this rightful expectation is even stronger when the product is a supplement that lists exact quantities of each of the nutrients it supposedly contains. Bob

Originally posted by aquageek I agree with you that if these were One-A-Days there might be an issue. However, I was under the impression we were discussing some type of supplement, not a vitamin with some ginseng tossed in. Vitamins are a type of supplement, as is ginseng. Did you not know this? Nutritional supplements are subject to the same kind of regulation that foods are. This means that they are required by law to list their ingredients on the label. (One of the reasons for this requirement, btw, is so that people with food allergies can make sure they don't buy a product to which they're allergic.) Food products and nutritional supplements are not monitored to the degree that pharmaceutical drugs are, but a consumer of such products has a right to expect that all ingredients will be listed on the label, and this rightful expectation is even stronger when the product is a supplement that lists exact quantities of each of the nutrients it supposedly contains. Bob