Massachusetts Rep. Kay Kahn, a Democrat from the Boston suburb of Newton, refiled a bill in January that would restrict sales of certain weight loss and muscle building dietary supplements to minors, requiring retailers to post dire warnings of potential injuries and even death, as well as placing these supplements behind the counter.
Introduced in the Democrat-controlled House last week, the new bill (H.D. 2883) is unchanged from bill H.1195, which Kahn introduced in the 2017-2018 legislative session.
It would require retailers to limit access of weight loss and muscle building supplements to any consumer under the age of 18, essentially putting the products under lock and key and permitting access by store manager only.
The bill also proposes a requirement that retailers of such supplements post a warning on the counter “that certain over-the-counter diet pills, or dietary supplements for weight loss or muscle building are known to cause gastrointestinal impairment tachycardia, hypertension, myocardial infarction, stroke, severe liver injury sometimes requiring transplant or leading to death, organ failure, other serious injury, and death.”
The state’s Department of Public health would determine the exact warning language and partner with FDA and key stakeholders, including the eating disorder community, to determine which weight and muscle products would be restricted for sale.
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