I’m curious to know if anyone has any insight on why there seem to be so many ads for supplements with pretty dubious health claims in Japan. Is the Japanese equivalent of the food and drug administration more lenient than other developed countries? Some other reason?
https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/181x0xq/dubious_japanese_supplements/
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Most are relatively tame things like glucosamine but given Japan-centric packaging and is four times as much as buying the same stuff at regular supplement sites.
Do they actually make health claims? Look closer and they don’t say anything at all.
Often the slogans are something like “Feeling tired? Drink W Flovamin DX!” or just the word “Genki!” No claims made, just the implication that the product is healthy. (It’s probably full of sugar.)
Can you give an example, and also we wouldn’t know all the FDA equiv of all of the developed countries.
I always get a good laugh at teas in the shops that say “fat burning!”. Load of shite.
You have it everywhere.
Even in the U.S., there are scam-like supplements that claim to be diets.
PT Barnum said something relevant on the topic once…
The claims are usually backed by studies, now, whether those results are legit result of blind experiment, cherry picking ? No one knows.