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Industry Actions to Address Quality Issues for Dietary Supplements, Botanicals, and Other Natural Products
Author(s) -
Shenkar J.,
Griffiths James C.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt.1119
Subject(s) - blessing , business , marketing , natural (archaeology) , position (finance) , quality (philosophy) , dietary supplement , public relations , political science , food science , biology , finance , history , paleontology , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology
The concept of “dietary supplements” is either a blessing for those focused on healthy lifestyles and personal management thereof or a crisis fraught with snake oil and drug analogs that are insidiously poisoning the gullible. Lost in this chatter is the role the ethical, and customer‐focused industry takes to drive self‐directing/self‐governing initiatives to demonstrate unequivocally their position as responsible corporate citizens, meeting the needs of the ever‐growing body of wellness‐seekers.