I think you miss the point that a few have correctly and eloquently made in this thread. Charlie Parker, or the likes of him, can still intentionally drink stuff today that contains sulfuric acid, out of pure curiosity or out of an urgent drive for self-extinction, as long as they are aware, not only of the presence, but also the amount of, sulfuric acid in that stuff. They are at liberty to do this. Suicide rates, regardless of motivation, will never drop to zero. The point though, in terms of supplements, is that one can never mnake a serious case for keeping the FDA or any other enforcement instance out of the supplement industry, as long as some so-called supplement manufacturers, deliberately or otherwise, either introduce products with completely unkown pharmacological activity, omit potent bioactive compounds in ingredient panels or "spike" their blends with undelcared compounds, sell questionable compounds as food supplements, declare inaccurate ingredient amounts per serving, manipluate the chemical nomenclature of certain compounds to feign compound safety, or any combination of these. As long as any of these occurs, FDA intervention will be unavoidable. As you make your bed, so you lie on it! It is easy to go at the FDA's jugular or discredit the (Obama or a previous) adminstration, but the supplement industry's real enemies are the unscrupulous companies in the industry that deliberately operate with a total lack of ethics and morals, driven only by short-term profit maximization at the expense of trusting (or unknowing) consumers and the eventual ruin of the (supplement) industry. These are the ones we should attack daily!
