Say goodbye to health claims

You know that small type on nearly every bottle of vitamins and weight-loss pills and health food. Buy enough of them and you can say it from memory: “This statements has not been evaluated by the FDA.”

What if the FDA did evaluate these claims? Every last one of them, from the outrageous “lose 30 pounds in two days!” pills to the more reasonable “helps lower cholesterol” claims on the sides of cereal boxes. If the FDA looked at all these claims, how many would be false?

The European Union passed a law two years ago essentially doing that.