Jane Black

Jane Black appears in Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work? as a Washington, D.C. food-politics reporter working with Sarah Gonzalez on the Planet Money supplement investigation. She frames “big wellness” as a growing commercial and political force, then follows how manufacturing, claim language, regulatory history, and consumer desire fit together.

Her contribution is the source’s synthesis layer: supplements are not only products with questionable efficacy, but a business and policy system where Recurring Supplement Commerce, Supplement Structure Function Claims, and weak premarket safety requirements reinforce each other.

Connections

• Sarah Gonzalez - host and reporting partner.
• Planet Money and NPR - show and network context.
• Dietary Supplement Regulation and Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act - regulatory branch developed in the episode.
• Marion Nestle and Melanie Benish - expert voices used to interpret evidence and law.