Alt Med and Nutritional Supplements In the Crosshairs

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Alt Med and Nutritional Supplements In the Crosshairs

The Institute of Medicine Releases New Report onComplementary and Alternative Medicine

Reporting and Commentary © By Peter Barry Chowka

(January 15, 2005) If the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has its way, alternative therapies will soon be subjected to more rigorous government regulation and oversight. Complementary alternative medicine (CAM) and alternative therapies will have to be proven to work according to allopathic medical models. The result, of course, will be that they will be less widely available, and they will be more expensive. The IOM also wants the federal law exempting nutritional supplements from being treated like prescription drugs to be changed so that, in the future, vitamins and herbal supplements will have to be proven safe and effective according to conventional criteria before they can be sold to the public. Much like the situation now facing consumers in Western Europe and Canada, supplements, especially in their current high concentration or mega-dose form, will be severely restricted, unavailable in many cases, and prohibitively

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