CFSAN looks ahead
The FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) released a list of its priorities for 2013-14 back in October, with a 'surprising' number relevant to supplements.
The list, which is available in full here, has numerous issues for companies active in the dietary supplements industry, including the finalizing guidance for new dietary ingredients (NDIs), modernizing the post-market surveillance system for dietary supplements, publishing final guidance to help determine if a liquid food product (such as energy drinks) may be labeled and marketed as a dietary supplement, and publishing guidance for manufacturers who want to voluntarily label foods made without genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Commenting on the priority list, Duffy MacKay, ND, vice president, scientific and regulatory affairs, for the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) told us that seeing so many priorities are relevant to dietary supplement manufacturers and ingredient suppliers is “somewhat surprising because so many of the FSMA proposed rules will be finalized in this time period and one would assume that FDA resources would be tied up focusing on implementing new rules and providing training and guidance for all of the new rules and regulations that will come into effect under FSMA.
“It is clear that CFSAN will continue to focus significant resources on dietary supplements, which is a good thing because a strong industry needs a strong regulatory body to support it.”
To read the full article with reaction from CRN and AHPA, please click here.
To read the reaction from the UNPA, please click here.