People on Tik Tok peddling these scams

Buttflapper@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 306 points –

I don't see how this is legal, but people on Tik Tok peddling miracle "medicine" are becoming more common every day. No FDA approval, no research. Just their marketing hype and false promises. This one, lady is showing some sort of probiotic and claiming it can help people suffering from severe acid reflux and gastrointestinal reflux disease or GERD, replacing medicine that has been tested for decades.

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Congress needs to give the FDA the power to regulate supplements goddamn yesterday.

They had it and it was taken away in the 90s

Thanks, Sen. Tom Harkin.

Best we can do is ignore everything while random judges give themselves power to override the FDA whenever it causes inconvenience to corporations.

— Congress

Yeah. The peddlers of homeopathic crap are the first ones that need to burn.

So many laws would have to change, and the FDA would need about 1,000x the people and money. I'm all for it, but it's an unsolvable problem. If it is something taken orally, including food, it can basically only ever be a reactive response to people dying.