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Diet supplements
Diet supplements are categorized as “food” under the FDA definition, which means they do not regulate it like medicine. After the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, a bottle cannot claim to cure, mitigate or treat a disease because that would constitute a medicine.
Diet supplements can be especially useful for those who have certain food restrictions. For example, people who are either lactose intolerant or vegan should consider supplements to get their protein or calcium.
Since calcium or protein don’t directly mitigate certain diseases (of course osteoporosis has been linked to lack of calcium), the FDA feels no need to regulate these diet supplements. However, the line between some food and medicine can be blurry, and some activists want more specific outlines of what can be sold without FDA regulations.
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