NDI draft guidance

ABC: Solvents white paper could help inform NDI debate

ABC: Solvents white paper could help inform NDI debate

By Elaine Watson

An authoritative new guide to 23+solvents used in the production of botanical extracts for dietary ingredients could help inform the debate on ‘chemical alteration’ at the heart of the FDA’s draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs), says the American...

NDI Draft Guidance Comments in brief

Atrium Innovations on NDIs: The system isn’t broken, so why fix it?

By Stephen Daniells

The FDA’s NDI draft guidance sets up a ‘substantial and unprecedented premarket regulatory process’ that is ‘tantamount to obtaining FDA approval for dietary supplement products’, says Atrium Innovations.

AHPA to FDA: Tear up NDI draft guidance and start again

NDI draft guidance comments

AHPA to FDA: Tear up NDI draft guidance and start again

By Elaine Watson

The Food and Drug Administration should tear up its “hugely flawed” draft guidance on new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications and go back to the drawing board, according to the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA).

ABC: Expert panel should clarify list of grandfathered dietary ingredients

NDI draft guidance comments

ABC: Expert panel should clarify list of grandfathered dietary ingredients

By Elaine Watson

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should recognize the existing industry list of ‘grandfathered’ or ‘old’ dietary ingredients (ODIs) sold in the US pre-1994 – but work with an expert panel to clarify its contents, according to the American Botanical...

Trade to FDA: Don’t leave us in limbo on NDI guidance

Trade to FDA: Don’t leave us in limbo on NDI guidance

By Elaine Watson

While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will need time to process the expected tidal wave of comments on its draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs), the supplements industry should not be left in regulatory “limbo” for long, trade associations...

NDI draft guidance release is ‘curious timing’: BI chief

Dispatches from SupplySide West

NDI draft guidance release is ‘curious timing’: BI chief

By Stephen Daniells

The timing of the release of the new dietary ingredient (NDI) draft guidance is “curious” given pressing economic/resource issues and “far more serious issues that FDA should be looking at”, says the chief executive of BI Nutraceuticals.

Readership split on need for new trade association

Readership split on need for new trade association

By Stephen Daniells

NutraIngredients-USA’s readership is torn over the issue of whether the dietary supplements industry needs a new trade association, according to results of a recent poll.

Hatch: 'Alarmed' by NDI draft guidance

DSHEA co-author is ‘alarmed’ by NDI guidance

By Elaine Watson

The chief architect of the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) does not believe the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs) is consistent with the legislation he co-authored, his office...

Rice: Find the middle ground

Supplements trade: NDI guidance can be salvaged, but give us more time

By Elaine Watson

If stakeholders are granted more time to respond to the FDA’s draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs), it should be possible to reach a compromise that will satisfy regulators without devastating the dietary supplements industry, trade associations...

It might not be legally binding, but ignore the FDA's draft guidance at your peril...

NDI guidance poll verdict: It’s catastrophic ...

By Elaine Watson

A seemingly innocuous draft guidance document outlining the FDA's views on new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications has provoked almost as much hysteria as Campbell Soup's move to put some salt back into its soups. But with good reason, according...

Siegner: This will shut off innovation

Lawyer on NDI guidance: FDA is trying to ‘dismantle’ DSHEA

By Elaine Watson

The argument that the FDA has overstepped its legal remit in its draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs) is gaining ground, with one food law expert claiming the FDA is “trying to dismantle” the legislation it is supposed to be clarifying.

Kruger: Think about this from a consumer confidence perspective

Toxicologist: FDA’s NDI guidance is entirely reasonable

By Elaine Watson

Many dietary ingredients used in supplements today bear little resemblance to ingredients that were assumed to be ‘grandfathered in’ post the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act, making a fresh safety analysis eminently reasonable if extraction...

ABC's Mark Blumenthal

ABC on NDI guidance: ‘We find this problematic’

By Elaine Watson

The American Botanical Council (ABC) has weighed into the debate over the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) draft guidance document on new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications.

Lawyer: FDA line on grandfathered ingredients was not made clear

Lawyer: FDA line on grandfathered ingredients was not made clear

By Elaine Watson

A leading food law expert and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) dietary supplements chief agreed to disagree over several key aspects of the FDA’s draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs) during a spirited conference call with stakeholders...

Fabricant:

Big interview: Daniel Fabricant, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

FDA on NDI guidance: This is ‘not a doomsday scenario’ for supplements trade

By Elaine Watson

The trade can rail against the Food and Drug Administration's new dietary ingredient (NDI) guidance as much as it likes, but it cannot honestly pretend to be shocked or even surprised by it, according to the man in charge of the FDA’s dietary supplements...

Doing nothing and hoping it will all go away is not a good plan ...

Big Interview: Vasilios Frankos, Herbalife

Frankos on NDI guidance (part two): This really isn’t a big surprise

While many stakeholders warn that the FDA’s controversial NDI draft guidance will stifle innovation and bury the supplements trade (and the FDA itself) under a hellish mountain of paperwork, they cannot pretend they didn’t see it coming, Herbalife’s Vasilios...

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