To charge medical drug companies fees for drug approval and oversight is
a form of tax, better them then citizens. The current administration
wanted to weaken the laws without changing them by reducing oversight
funding.


In a similar way the currant supplement drug industry already weak law
is even less enforced for similar reasons. It too should be charged
fees to fund oversight of it.

I would propose broadening the supplement drug oversight by requiring
that labels and actual amounts of contents and levels of the drugs be
confirmed, just like aspirin is required. I would suggest too a rating
system to reflect how well the drug has scientific backing for its
claims. Vitamin c would get the highest rating for example while the
many fly by night snake oil nostrums would get the lowest.

An informed consumer is a better consumer and better positioned to take
control of his health decisions. Marketing alone now rules the
supplement drug industry which leaves the consumer the least informed.