monday, October 23, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 5
Officials warn consumers about miracle reducing products
By Denice Smee
"Become beautiful overnight with this
miracle cream."
"Lose five pounds this week."
'Take off those unsightly layers around
your middle."
Everyone has heard these types of ads,
but the Federal Food and Drug Admini
stration says consumer? should take care
when buying such items.
"Often such devices or treatements are
nothing more than money-making schemes
for their promoters. The results they pro
duce are questionable, and some are
hazardous to health," Margaret Morrison
wrote in a June 1975 issue of FDA Con
sumer. The FDA requires proof of safety and
effectiveness of drugs before they can be
sold, the report said, but it has no control
over devices until after the device has been
marketed.
Dangerous to health
Then if the device proves to be danger
ous to health when used as directed, or if
the directions are inadequate, the FDA
can force the product off the market
through legal proceedings.
Other federal agencies which can initiate
legal action against a product at the U.S.
Postal Service if the device or drug was
mailed and the Federal Trade Commission
if it has been misrepresented by false or
misleading advertising.
consumer byline
However, if the product meets the
standards of these agencies, it still can be
sold whether it is truly effective or not.
The Better Business Bureau in Tips for
Consumers from Your Better Business
Bureau warns consumers about products
that "miraculously stops your appetite and
hunger."
Lose mohey
"You reach for your money and head
for the mailbox," it says, "Before you run
out the door, the Better Business Bureau
warns that the only thing you stand to lose
is your money."
A pharmacist at Wagey Drug Co.,
Washington and 17th Streets, said there is a
great demand for weight-reducing pro
ducts, but they only offer one kind.
"I think the best idea is to follow a
strict diet and not to take any medica
tion," she said.
These types of drugs may be effective
the first week especially if they are
designed to reduce water weight but after
that it is probably all psychological, she
said.
Walgreen Self Service Drug, 1301 0 Sts.
carries several kinds of drugs that promise
weight reduction, pharmacist Herbert
Naber said.
One of the most effective ones, he said,
produces bulk in the stomach, so the per
son is not as hungry.
"Those that are chemical stimulators
aren't usually as effective," he said.
Follow directions
Larry Redfield, a pharmacist at K-Ray
Pharmacy, 2541 N. 11, said that persons
who use the weight reducing aids sold there
have to follow the directions if they expect
results.
"You definitely have to follow the diet
plan in the package or it won't work," he
said.
Anyone on a diet probably should be
taking a vitamin supplement, he said.
Redfield said the protein drinks which
have been so controversial were
considered dangerous because the only
thing the person consumed was the drink.
He said the ones sold now at K-Ray
Pharmacy direct the person to drink it for
only two meals and then eat a regular third
meal.
Well balanced meal
These will not be dangerous as long as
the meal eaten is a well-balanced one, Red
field said.
An FDA Consumer Memo of March
1974 suggested that it consumers thinks
they have been victims of a dangerous or
misrepresented drug or device they should
do one of the following:
See their physician or inform their
county medical society.
Contact the FDA either at a local
district office or at their headquarters,
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Md. 20852.
Contact the Better Business Bureau.
Inform the local Post Office if the drug
or device was mailed.
Anti-union brief filed J
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An NU Board of Regents brief sent to the Nebraska
Supreme Court opposes a faculty union at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha, according to an attorney for the
opposition.
David Cullan, lawyer representing the UNO chapter of
the American Association of University Professors, said
the brief only rehashes a 1977 appeal that lost. He said he
does not "expect any difference in opinion from the
Supreme Court in 1978 than in 1977."
The regents filed the brief Wednesday, appealing a Ne
braska Court of Industrial Relations decision saying the
union was an appropriate bargaining unit.
The regents charge that the union would infrigne on
their right to establish uniform personnel policies and
wages.
It also said department chairmen, librarians, special
appointees, assistant instructors and counselors have con
flicting interests and should not be included in a single
bargaining unit.
Cullan said the court upheld a similar case last year on
the UNL campus, but the union proposal was later voted
down by the UNL Faculty Senate.
"How this case can be distinguished from the Lincoln
case is beyond me," he said.
The entire Lincoln case brief entered as evidence in
the industrial relations decision.
Cullan said the regents could be stalling for time.
The opposition brief will be filed within the next
month and a half, he added. A court date will then be set.
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