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US: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications Guidance - negative response from two key organisations

07/12/2011

The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) both call on the FDA to withdraw the New Dietary Ingredient Notifications Guidance (NDI). 

The CRN's president states “The draft guidance would essentially undo nearly two decades of agency practice and policy" whilst the AHPA "noted that instead of facilitating compliance with the NDI provision of the law, the draft guidance would, if implemented as written with the flaws identified, change the rules that have been in place for the last 17 years and significantly increase the burden on the supplement industry far beyond the intent of Congress with no concomitant benefit for consumers."

So what do you think?

Author: Greer Deal, Director of Global Regulatory Services