This personal testimony about health supplements from winstonthorne on today’s earlier post is too good—and disturbing—to leave buried in comments:

One of my friends actually stuffs capsules for a living for a company making an herbal “sexual stimulant” – she literally sits there on her living room floor watching TV, smoking cigarettes, and talking on the phone while handling (with either bare unwashed hands or many-times-reused gloves) the powder and the capsules themselves. It pays well, and her boss gets away with this because there’s no FDA control on herbal supplements AT ALL. God only knows what’s in those pills.

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