First of September - Knowledge Day! And what other day, did you forget to ask? BAD-day.

Now the relationship between clinics, doctors, and dietary supplements is strictly regulated.

According to Article 74 of Federal Law No. 323-FZ:
Medical workers and heads of clinics are not entitled to accept from organizations engaged in the development and/or sale of dietary supplements gifts, money, including remuneration, and even participation in entertainment events at the expense of these companies.

⛔️Agreements/contracts on promotion - prohibited.
⛔️Receiving samples - prohibited;
⛔️Conducting meetings and receiving representatives of companies - prohibited;
⛔️Forms/prescriptions with supplement advertising - prohibited.

Also, a list of quality criteria for dietary supplements has been prepared (at least three):

⁃ the enterprise has a quality management system (easy and inexpensive to implement),
⁃ technical documentation considering risk analysis (they will also add),
⁃ Availability of publications with analysis of data on composition, dosages, and drug interactions of dietary supplements,
⁃ Inclusion of supplement components in clinical recommendations of the Ministry of Health or an international medical association,
⁃ Availability of studies conducted by manufacturers that prove a positive effect on health and the nature of interaction with food, drugs, and medical devices.

😳So, according to this bill, any chronically toxic supplement can be pushed through:
get a QMS (+1),
write documentation that there is a risk and read the instructions / consult a doctor at the first side effects (+2),
sponsor a scientific study on how often our supplement is prescribed according to an online questionnaire of a small and not wealthy association of doctors - write clinical recommendations (+3). ✅

😆Well, not to conduct clinical studies in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration:
placebo-controlled, randomized, blinded
and also about compatibility with drugs; this is difficult and expensive - hundreds of millions.

At the same time, in the law on advertising:
Advertising of dietary supplements should not create the impression that they are medicines or have medicinal properties.


A doctor can prescribe dietary supplements. According to indications.
And indications are determined in the instructions, whatever the manufacturer wants. Yes, proving the effect is not necessary.

The doctor is doomed to agree with the advertising campaign of the supplement and will be forced to prescribe it to the patient to avoid punishment.
It is almost impossible to quickly find up-to-date information and give it to the patient - without access to databases of real clinical studies of supplements.

💊It seems that everyone decides for themselves how not to "add" problems to their food.