What’s in your medicine may surprise you – a call for greater transparency about inactive ingredients
- Written by Yelena Ionova, Postdoctoral Fellow in Quality of Medical Products, University of California, San Francisco
GettyImagesPeter Dazeley/Getty ImagesThere are many more ingredients in every pill you take than what is listed on the bottle label. These other ingredients, which are combined with the therapeutic one, are often sourced from around the world before landing in your medicine cabinet and are not always benign.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Congress...