Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management

When Diets Turn Deadly: Consumer Safety and Weight Loss Supplements

Date: July 31, 2002
Time: 10:00am
Location: 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Witnesses

Panel I

Joseph A.

Levitt, Esq.

Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Food and Drug Administration

Department of Health and Human Services

Panel I

Michael F.

Mangano

Principal Deputy Inspector General, Office of the Inspector General

Department of Health and Human Services

Panel II

Stephen B.

Heymsfield, MD

Deputy Director, Obesity Research Center , St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital

Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physician’s and Surgeons

Panel II

Michael

McGuffin

President

American Herbal Products Association

Panel II

Karen

Ruiz

Consumer