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FDA Focus On Food Safety Regulations May Delay OTC And Supplement Rules

 
• By Elizabeth Crawford

FDA will try to eke out rules on OTC drug reviews and supplement labels in 2012 with its hands full implementing the food safety act. In the latest regulatory agenda, FDA priorities include an NPRM on foreign supplier verification and regulations to accredit third-party auditors to inspect firms across the agency’s oversight.

FDA will have its hands full in 2012 implementing requirements in the Food Safety Modernization Act, which could push back the publication of other pending and much-anticipated regulations.

But the agency still will try to eke out proposed and final rules related to several OTC drugs as part of its ongoing monographs review, and could propose several label changes that will impact the supplement industry, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Jan. 20

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