We paid to have these products tested, on behalf of Senator Kohl, to test for things like arsenic, pesticides, and things like that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I know, you know, Senator Hatch certainly has talked about the funding that has lacked at the FDA, but is that the only issue that has kept y'all, for 16 years, from implementing some of the things that originally were put in place in 1994?

So, in essence, the fact that these two products were sold--and, while that hurts your industry and y'all are self-policing and not really charged with making sure that these things occur--the fact is, the FDA and the FTC should have…

Again, I'm a strong supporter of the dietary supplement industry, from the standpoint of being a consumer and just seeing so many people use these types of products.

But, are there not guidelines that you guys have published, where any retailer that's serious would know that some claim by an entity that's producing a particular product that has the ingredients that it says it has in it, there's no way…

I think one of the things that we should do here in Congress, before we look at passing new laws, is try to make sure the laws that are on the books are actually implemented appropriately.

So, if I want to make a product that does, whatever, I can make that product and make those claims and put it on the label, and there's no preapproval process as to whether that's valid, or not.

So, look--each of us probably, from time to time, take prescriptions also, in addition to the dietary supplements that some of us may take daily, and many Americans do.

So, it's--but--and again, I'm not trying to shift blame--it's not really your responsibility. Y'all do that because you want your industry to be healthy.

The retail clerk--I expect that I could probably go get a job at one of these units pretty easily, even with my lack of experience, and would my advocating on behalf of that be based on what's on the label?

I would like to go back and say we began the process of looking at financial regulation after the crisis that occurred a couple years ago, where institutions all across this country made loans--very poor loans--to people who used that…