> Who knows what using these plant medicines across a population would result in statistically? A lot of deaths: https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/07/02

> Who knows what using these plant medicines across a population would result in statistically? A lot of deaths: https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/07/02/dietary-supplements-scary-substances-manufactured-under-scary-conditions https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/07/02/dietary-supple... > The inspection reports portray an industry struggling to meet basic manufacturing standards, from verifying the identity of the ingredients that go into its products to inspecting finished batches of supplements. > Some firms don't even have recipes, known as master manufacturing records, for their products. > Others make their supplements in unsanitary factories. New Jersey-based Quality Formulation Laboratories produced protein powder mixes and other supplements in a facility infested with rodents, rodent feces and urine, according to government records. FDA inspectors found a rodent apparently cut in half next to a scoop, according to a 2008 inspection report. > we don't know because there's no money to be made in it. Lots of people are making lots of money selling this stuff. It's a huge industry.