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Absent Mandatory Listing, US FDA Acknowledges Its Supplement Directory Isn’t Comprehensive

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Two weeks after Commissioner Califf notes he supports mandatory listing of supplements and two months after previous session of Congress ended without imposing requirement, agency is doing what it can to publish information about ingredients in supplements sold in the country.

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The Food and Drug Administration keeps its eye on requiring dietary supplement marketers to report information about all products sold in the US as it unveils a website offering its information about ingredients used in the products.

Two weeks after Commissioner Robert Califf noted in a blog post that he supports mandatory listing of supplements with the FDA and just past two months after the previous session of Congress ended without legislation passed to impose the requirement, the agency announced it’s doing what it can to compile

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Third-Party ‘Testing, Inspection and Certification’ Cleaning Up Amazon Supplement Market

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Three FDA warnings related to supplement manufacturing, labeling or marketing submitted to Amazon or companies selling vitamin, mineral or supplement products on its e-commerce platform since April 2024.

Digital Services Deliver Hemp, States Deliver Regulation With Congress Yet To Act

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Four months into session, no bills have been introduced in Congress to authorize FDA to establish a regulatory pathway for the lawful use of hemp ingredients in products other than drugs or propose some other solution to the federal conundrum present since lawmakers in 2018 de-scheduled hemp.

Little Industry Opposition To FDA Plan To Remove Synthetic Dyes, Or Agreement They’re Unsafe

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Dyes and colors which FDA says industries agree should no longer be used aren’t unsafe and are currently used only with the agency’s approval, industry stakeholders say. Center for Science in the Public Interest says the dyes are used “in tens of thousands of foods and beverages that are commonly consumed here in the United States.”