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Seller beware: what do tough European supplement laws say about safety in the US?
A few months after Ed Chayet, 58, started taking chromium picolinate--a chromium salt touted for its ability to "burn" body fat--his heart started beating irregularly, sometimes pounding, sometimes even racing.
After some sleuthing, his doctor traced the problem to the dietary supplement. "It all went away when I stopped taking the chromium," Chayet recalls.
Chayet, like millions of consumers in the United States, is baffled, and sometimes endangered, by an array of dietary supplements promoted with myriad health claims, conflicting research studies, scandals that taint ethical manufacturers and general confusion about government regulations versus ...
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