Comments On Petition As Good As Public Hearing On NAC’s Use As Dietary Ingredient – US FDA

A citizen petition asking the US Food and Drug Administration to clarify that amino acid N-acetyl-L-cysteine can be used in in dietary supplements should be ample opportunity for public comment to guide the agency, the FDA tells a senator.

Supplement industry trade groups that have submitted citizen petitions encouraging the FDA to clarify that acid N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) is lawful as a dietary ingredient differed on whether the agency’s calculation equating submitting comments on a petition with conducting a