The 12 Most Dangerous Ingredients
The organization pointed to 12 supplement ingredients in particular that it said could be dangerous: aconite, bitter orange, chaparral, colloidal silver, coltsfoot, comfrey, country mallow, germanium, greater celandine, kava, lobelia, and yohimbe.
Potential dangers include liver and kidney damage, heart rhythm disorders, and unhealthy blood pressure levels, it said.
The group is critical of the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act or DSHEA, which it describes as industry-friendly and which prevents the FDA from regulating supplements in the same way as it regulates prescription medications.
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