The head of FDA on Monday announced a goal to implement “one of the most significant modernizations of dietary supplement regulation and oversight in more than 25 years.”
A quarter century after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), the industry has thrived with tens of billions of dollars in annual sales, the majority of U.S. adults taking supplements and an estimated 80,000 products on the U.S. market.
But in a lengthy statement revealing plans to strengthen the agency’s regulation of dietary supplements, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., expressed concern that changes in the supplement market may have outpaced the evolution of the agency’s policies and capacity to manage emerging risks.
“To continue to fulfill our public health obligations we need to modernize and strengthen our overall approach to these products,” Gottlieb said. “Toward these goals, the FDA is committing to new priorities when it comes to our oversight of dietary supplements at the same time that we carefully evaluate what more we can do to meet the challenge of effectively overseeing the dietary supplement market while still preserving the balance struck by DSHEA.”
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