Excerpt from Food and Drug Administration's Regulation of Dietary Supplements: Hearing Before the Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress; July 20, 1993 The Task Force attempted to balance the agency's statutory mandate to protect the public health with some accommodation of the desire of a substantial segment of the public to obtain dietary supplements. Including ones with possibly little or no documented nutritive value. The Task Force focused on products sold in capsule. Tablet. Liquid. And powder form. To facilitate its deliberations. The Task Force divided supplements into three categories: (1) Vitamin and mineral-containing products; (2) amino acid-containing products; and (3) products containing all other ingredients. A category that included herbs without a history of documented traditional food use. Plant and animal extracts. And certain other substances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.