That herbal supplement may not be what you think it is, scientists find

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60. Meanwhile, Sixty Mintues reported that the very expensive pharmaceuticals we

Americans are needing, and buying, often contain many things other than what we think we are buying.

One Sixty Minutes report focused on a woman who had tried to serve as Quality Analysis specialist at a US Pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Mexico,. The antibiotics were being intermixed with psych meds, and vice a versa. For her efforts at trying to see the situation was improved, she was of course, fired.

And then there is the fact that although having any sort of "vitamins" is now considered weird, food manufacturers are allowed by the FDA to put anything they want into our food. Want to know what a natural favoring might be? It could be an extract of beaver anal gland mush. (Something that another Sixty Minutes report dealt with, but in a pleasant way -- as if our having food with "beaver musk anal gland secretions" is really all wonderful and healthy and good.)