Health Supplement Quality Control and the FDA's Lack of Interest in the Topic
… pharmaceutical bosses. And since they have been disallowed from doing so, and as even with 15,000 employees the FDA is interested in doing as little work as possible, they have not even offered to set up a quality testing program. This means that the quality testing is in private hands — which is never a good idea given the history of private companies being in the position of assuring quality.
The two well-known entities are the NSF and the USP.
When doing supplement shopping it is how few supplements have either label on them.
The UPC states the following …