As part of it coverage of the Hydroxycut recall, on May 25th the LA Times published an article “Hydroxycut move shows limits of FDA's new powers over supplements.”
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-hew-supplements-regulate25-2009may25,0,6388263.story
As inexplicable as the title of the article might be, since the subject of the story was FDA’s actions forcing the “voluntary” recall of an entire product line, it included a piece of misinformation that was incredible even for the LA Times.
Following a lengthy discussion lamenting FDA’s inability to review data on the safety and efficacy of supplement prior to first sale, the article concludes with the following quote from Dr. Arthur Grollman of the State University of New York at Stony Brook:
And with supplements, as best we can tell, there is not a single supplement shown to have a significant beneficial effect on humans
Apparently Dr. Grollman has never heard of the relationship between calcium and osteoporosis, plant sterols and cardio vascular disease or folic acid and neural tube defects.
Subscribers to the LA Times should let the paper know what they think about this kind of misinformation.