Harkin, Hatch Take Swing At FDA Pitch To Evaluate NDIs As Food Additives

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

The staunch industry allies explain their concerns about the potential for regulating new dietary ingredients as food additives in a letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg. They point out DSHEA includes “an essential exclusion of dietary ingredients from the statutory definition of food additives.”

Sens. Tom Harkin and Orrin Hatch likely have pulled the plug on the potential for FDA applying its food additive standards to evaluating new dietary ingredients.

Harkin, D-Iowa, and Hatch, R-Utah, the primary Senate authors of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 and staunch industry allies ever since, explained their concern about the agency’s consideration of regulating NDIs as food additives in a Dec. 8

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