After looking into my topic some more I decided to change my question. My original question was; How safe and effective is the FDA's regulations on the food we eat? After doing my research I found that most of the information I could find on the FDA was out of date. Many of the current articles were government issued and I could not get access to the information they held. So do to the fact that I am having difficulty finding up to dat information on my subject I've decided to change my question. I now want to know how safe are weight loss drugs? And what exactly do they do?

While researching this new topic I have found some interesting information. I found this source on the internet while searching for information. It is The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is a news report that is televised, put on the internet, and is also apart of Newsweek magazine.

The article I read entitled "Too Good to Be True: Why some over-the-counter diet diet pills aren't just a sham, they're downright dangerous". This article covered many topics about diet pills but the thing I found most interesting was something it stated about the FDA's involvement with the corporations that produce the drugs. They said that the FDA's ability to regulate the production of these drugs are limited. They are not able to require safety and efficacy test until the drugs are on the shelves. Once there they can require them to be tested and and if they find something wrong the FDA can have them recalled. But that really shocked me to find that the diet pills aren't really regulated until they are in your hands.