Category Archives: Vitamins and Supplements

GAO Urges More FDA Control Over Dietary Supplements

There are a few very specific places to look if you want to read the tea leaves of potential reforms by Congress.  One is the Oversight committee correspondence with the agency that regulates your area of interest as well as … Continue reading

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Adverse Events Reporting on OTCs and Supplements

As reported earlier this week, S.3546 – the Dietary and Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Act was passed by the Senate on December 6.  Subsequently, on December 9, the House passed the Bill by a 2-1 majority.  A few minutes … Continue reading

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Senate Passes Dietary Supplement Adverse Event Bill

As the lame duck Senate gets ready to waddle off to their place in history, they have moved to pass S. 3546 – a bill that would require the makers of dietary supplements to report serious adverse events.  Interestingly, this … Continue reading

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Risk Benefit and DSHEA

The FDA has issued a statement regarding the decision by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversing a lower court decision on the FDA actions to ban ephedra from sale in the United States. You will recall that after a … Continue reading

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Vitamins, Canada and a Lesson for NIH

With proposals before Congress (see Legislative section to the right) to allow the FDA additional power to regulate the industry of vitamins and supplements, there have been recent developments of note. Last week, the National Institutes of Health held a … Continue reading

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