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US FDA’s Human Foods Program Reorganization Plan Isn’t Palatable To Supplement Industry

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Reorganization of CFSAN and related ORA operations into “unified Human Foods Program” would move ODSP into Office of Food Chemical Safety, Dietary Supplements and Innovation. Stakeholders plan to influence agency against making the change, or sway lawmakers to object, similar to what they did pushing for ODSP’s establishment less than 10 years ago.

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US dietary supplement industry stakeholders could say “we knew it when” if the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Dietary Supplements is folded into an office with a broader food product focus under the agency’s planned food programs restructuring.

Currently, though, stakeholders plan to influence the agency against making the change, or sway lawmakers to object to the proposal, similar to what they did

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