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.
FDA Debuts List For Rapidly Announcing Noncompliant Ingredients In Supplements
FDA announces addition of Dietary Supplement Ingredient Advisory List page to its website to identify ingredients it has preliminary determined should be used in dietary supplements. It also publishes warning letters submitted recently to firms marketing supplements containing two ingredients agency has concluded should not be used: eight were warned about using an ingredient identified as "DMHA" and three about using phenibut.
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