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UPDATE ON DIETARY SUPPLEMENT LEGISLATION

As I write this, the remaining days of the second session of the 108th US Congress are dwindling before the election recess, and time is running out for action on bills that would affect the regulation of dietary supplements. (Bills that have not been acted on in a given session of Congress do not carry over to the following session and need to be reintroduced.) By the time you read this, one or more of these bills may have passed, and in my next column, I will provide a recap of what happened as the 108th Congress wrapped up its final session.

Andro Action?

One bill that stands a better-than-average …