AHPA Sees Pre-Market Approval Behind Legislation Titled ‘Mandatory Listing’ For Supplements In US

“FDA has all the authority it needs to enforce” regulations on supplement manufacturing, marketing and labeling, says AHPA president Michael McGuffin. “We're concerned that this will be a new pre-market registration requirement.” 

• Source: Alamy

Mandatory listing of all dietary supplements available in the US would be tantamount to pre-market approval, an authority neither included nor needed in the Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory toolbox, says American Herbal Products Association president Michael McGuffin.

The agency already has ample authority to regulate vitamin, mineral and supplement product manufacturing, marketing and labeling, McGuffin said in...

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