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Hey Weeds listeners, it's Livy.

Today on the Weeds we're going to share an episode from another Vox podcast called

Unexplainable.

We've shared episodes of other Vox podcasts before, usually today explained in Vox conversations.

We haven't shared one from Unexplainable because it's a show about unanswered scientific

questions and that doesn't always fit into our typical Weeds framework.

But this episode is about the Food and Drug Administration and its extremely loose regulation

of the dietary supplements industry.

It's honestly pretty crazy just how unregulated this industry is.

So today, unexplainable reporter and producer Bird Pinkerton will walk us through the history

of American food and drug laws, the very very broad definition of supplements, and the

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