Quotes from the article, this batch from FDA inspections of supplement factories: > Some firms don’t even have recipes, known as master manufacturing records,

Quotes from the article, this batch from FDA inspections of supplement factories: > 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. And this shoddiness has a grave impact on real people: > In 2008 more than 200 people — including a 4-year-old — were poisoned by selenium after taking liquid multivitamin dietary supplements that were sold in health stores and by chiropractors, according to a medical paper published on the mass poisoning. The products, called Total Body Formula and Total Body Mega Formula, contained an average of 40,800 micrograms of selenium per serving instead of 200, according to the paper.