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Doctors, advocates press for age limits on diet/muscle supplements and shield-law labeling protections; industry warns of overbreadth
Summary
Clinicians and mental‑health experts urged an age restriction on certain diet and muscle‑building supplements and stronger protections for prescription labels used for reproductive and gender‑affirming care; trade groups warned the supplement restriction is overbroad and enforcement‑heavy.
Health professionals and advocates urged the General Law Committee to back two separate but adjacent pieces of legislation: an age‑based restriction on certain over‑the‑counter diet pills and muscle‑building supplements and an expansion of Connecticut’s shield law to allow prescriptions for reproductive or gender‑affirming care to list a practice name instead of an individual provider.
"Girls who use diet pills are six times more likely to develop an eating disorder," psychologist Margot Maine…
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