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US FDA Misses Point On NAC In Supplements, Avoids Answering Questions, CRN Argues

Retroactive Decisions Against Other Ingredients Likely, Trade Group Suggests

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Council for Responsible Nutrition also argues that not only is agency taking unprecedented path to summarily deem NAC disqualified for use as a dietary ingredient, but also could use same path for other ingredients commonly used in supplements.

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The latest missive in the dietary supplement industry and US regulators’ dispute about using N-acetyl-L-cysteine as a dietary ingredient doesn’t resolve their differences, but it makes clear a program is needed to keep track of the players and the score.

The Council for Responsible Nutrition’s 4 January comment to the Food and Drug Administration also brings to the forefront that not only is the agency taking an unprecedented path toward summarily deeming N-acetyl-L-cysteine, an amino acid commonly identified as NAC, disqualified for use as a

The CRN’s letter responds to the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition’s November response to the trade group’s citizen petition – docket

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