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To the Editor: In his editorial on cancer and herbs, Kessler (June 8 issue)¹ criticizes the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. This act provides the public with considerably more protection than the editorial reveals and was enacted because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had been improperly trying to ban safe dietary-supplement products.

The Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, in its report on the need for the act, stated bluntly, "In fact, FDA has been distorting the law in its actions to try to prevent the marketing of safe dietary supplement substances,"² and four courts . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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