The dietary supplement industry is a multi-billion-dollar-per-year industry. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency responsible for regulating dietary supplements, has suffered from a lack of funding and legal authority to take necessary action to protect consumers from potentially dangerous dietary supplements.
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The Decision:
On March 12, 2010 the Special Masters in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding released a decision regarding the three thimerosal test cases. The court concluded that the petitioners had failed to show a connection between the mercury-containing preservative and autism.
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This evening I went to an awards ceremony at which my very gracious table host presented each of his guests with an amazing one and three-quarter inch silver iPod Shuffle. This piece of technology jams into its tiny footprint the equivalent of what one-quarter of my bedroom as a teenager took up for music in the form of what was then referred to as a hi-fi, and shelves upon shelves of twelve-inch vinyl records. This tiny 4 gigabyte Shuffle holds enough music to get me through multiple New York City marathons with uninterrupted listening pleasure.
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