US Supplement Industry Left Waiting For Changes In FDA ‘Unified’ Food Programs Reorganization

“Something needed to be done” to improve FDA’s regulation of human foods supply, says Commissioner Califf says. “Dietary supplements is a whole different kettle of fish that we can discuss at a later time.”

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US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf says “it had reached the point where something needed to be done” to improve the agency's oversight of the supply of human foods in the US.

As far as how a restructuring of the agency’s centers, offices, divisions and other units with some connection to oversight...

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