On Friday, May 20, 2022, FDA published a policy on enforcement discretion regarding New Dietary Ingredients (NDIs) in the form of a draft guidance. The Dietary Supplement Health Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) amended the FD&C Act and set up the dietary supplement regulations [...]
Update February 17, 2022: Please use this link to view the UNPA webinar "In the BEginning"... Dietary Supplements Supply Chain Starts with Ag mentioned in the original post. The webinar opens with a general introduction and the presentations begin as indicated below. Good Agricultural and [...]
New ingredients for use in foods, dietary supplements, and pet foods each have unique review and approval processes mandated by FDA.
Hindsight and 2020: A look back at FDA activities in 2019 and a look forward to 2020.
On August 11, 2016 FDA published their long-awaited revised draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredient Notifications. The guidance contains numerous requirements that will significantly affect the dietary supplement industry and establishes a 60 day comment period if manufacturers wish to affect the final rule. The [...]
In mid-January FDA issued two important guidance documents, Distinguishing Liquid Dietary Supplements from Beverages (http://tinyurl.com/m443cla) and Considerations Regarding Substances Added to Foods, Including Beverages and Dietary Supplements (http://tinyurl.com/nhwqz26). I will discuss the guidances in detail below but will start with the parts that are particularly [...]
Earlier this summer the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD). This website provides label information from supplement products marketed in the US. The database is easily searchable by ingredient, product name and company name and provides a summary [...]
Hello! Summer is in full swing here in the Northern Hemisphere and FDA is heating things up for the US dietary supplement industry. On Friday, July 1, 2011 FDA published the long-anticipated Draft Guidance for Industry on Dietary Supplement New Dietary Ingredient Notifications. You can [...]
FDA warning letters continue to provide information that give insight into the level of detail of FDA inspection, which are relatively new to the dietary supplement industry and may help your company avoid problems when your inspection comes up. In a February 9, 2011 letter [...]