FDA Expects Safety As Ticket To Enter 'Pre-DSHEA' Dietary Ingredient List

FDA agrees with public health advocates that ingredients should be on a potential list of those available when Congress passed DSHEA only after current substantiation for a reasonable expectation of safety for their intended uses.

FDA's dietary supplement programs chief includes safety among the criteria for a dietary ingredient's place on a list of ingredients available in the US before October 1994 as consumer health advocates urge the agency to detect unsafe supplements no matter the products' formulations.

Advocates speaking at an Oct. 3 public meeting organized by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Office of...