Dietary supplements — vitamins, minerals, botanicals and probiotics — are more popular than ever. As many as 100,000 different supplement products are sold in stores and online in the U.S., the FDA estimates. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 put dietary supplements in the same category as food under the FDA. This framework means the agency regulates dietary supplements as food products rather than pharmaceuticals. As a result, overseeing the products’ safety and efficacy is largely left up to the companies that sell them.

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