FDA Debuts List For Rapidly Announcing Noncompliant Ingredients In Supplements

The US Food and Drug Administration delivers on its plan for a "rapid response tool" to identify and publish ingredients the agency says could be ineligible for use in dietary supplements. The tool doesn't, however, deliver brand names or identify firms marketing products containing the ingredients.

The FDA announced the addition of the Dietary Supplement Ingredient Advisory List to its website on April 16 with four ingredients – andarine, higenamine, hordenine and 1,4-DMAA– that the agency has preliminarily determined should not be used vitamin, minerla or supplement products because they are not dietary ingredients or are new dietary ingredients that have not been notified to the agency with proof of a reasonable expectation of safety for their intended use