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To the Editor: In their Sounding Board article, Marcus and Grollman (Dec. 19 issue)¹ are forthright in pointing out the problems that emerged from the enactment of the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act (DSHEA) in 1994. Although Consumers Union, in its publications Consumer Reports and Consumer Reports on Health, has sought to enable patients to obtain the best possible health care, we believe that the DSHEA was an ill-conceived and misguided attempt at empowerment of consumers. In actuality, it resulted not only in confusion and mistrust on the part of consumers but also in outright harm, including deaths. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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