US dietary supplement industry stakeholders are split on the Food and Drug Administration requiring product registration as a draft Senate bill would authorize, but agreement is likely on a provision ordering the agency to publish a final guidance on new dietary ingredient notifications.
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-WA, and ranking member Richard Burr, R-NC, included the supplement registration and NDI notification guidance provisions in a
Murray and Burr’s draft follows the April introduction of a bill, S. 4090, authored by Sens. Dick Durbin, D-IL, and Mike Braun, R-IN, more narrowly focused on requiring registration with the FDA of all vitamin, mineral and supplement products available for sale in the US. The product registration language in the discussion draft largely tracks with the language in S. 4090, which was assigned to the HELP Committee