Battle Over Dietary Supplement Heating Up.(Brief Article)

Chemical Market Reporter, August, 1999

PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY representatives, dietary supplement manufacturers and public health officials are battling over what vitamin and herbal product makers can claim about health effects. In April 1998, Food and Drug Administration proposed guidelines on health claims. The agency has received more than 100,000 comments on the proposal, with the majority opposed to the criteria, says Janice Oliver, deputy director of FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

Because of the volume of comments, the agency decided to get additional public input, especially on its proposed definition of what constitutes a "disease," and whether the agency should allow manufacturers to make "implied disease claims," such as staring that a product "maintains...

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