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A veteran lawyer in Washington supports a requirement that companies register their dietary supplement product labels. The general idea\u2014incorporated in legislation introduced in previous years on Capitol Hill\u2014could lead to reform of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA).<\/p>\n
\u201cI really believe that this movement has picked up speed this year,\u201d said Scott Bass, an attorney who heads the Global Sciences team at\u00a0Sidley Austin LLP<\/a>.<\/p>\n Based on his discussions with myriad groups, the lawyer revealed, the idea\u2019s \u201ctime has come.\u201d He said it was possible to see \u201cactivity on this front as early as the fourth quarter\u201d of 2018.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I don\u2019t mean activity in the sense of the law passed,\u201d Bass acknowledged, \u201cbut I mean serious legislative attention.\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview during an annual symposium in California for the dietary supplement industry hosted in October by the\u00a0Council for Responsible Nutrition<\/a>(CRN), Bass laid out his support for a mandatory product registry.<\/p>\n \u201cUnless we have a system\u00a0where FDA can say, \u2018We know what\u2019s on the market in the list\u2019 [of registered products] and then can easily find out what is not on that list and can easily enforce, we\u2019re not going to be able to stem the rising tide of illegal products,\u201d he asserted. \u201cThere really is no choice because FDA can never enforce against outliers unless they know what\u2019s on the market legitimately.\u201d<\/p>\n Added Bass: \u201cSecond, how can a company offer a product to consumers that is supposedly a health product and then say, \u2018But I don\u2019t want the government to know about it.\u2019 It just makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n