FDA issues new safety rules for vitamins
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-21 07:37:34
WASHINGTON - For the first time of vitamins herbal pills and other dietary will have to test all of their products&39;t contain ingredients claimed on the label.
Last year the agency found that some supplements contained undeclared active ingredients used in prescription drugs for erectile dysfunction. In the past regulators found supplements that didn&39;t have to comply until June 2008.
The command applies to all domestic and foreign companies that manufacture package and label supplements for sale in the U. S. It requires them to analyze the identity purity and strength of all the ingredients that go into their products before they are distributed.
It also includes requirements for preserve keeping and handling consumer complaints.
Dr. Sidney Wolfe who has testified before Congress on problems with dietary supplements said the new rule does not ease his concern that unsafe supplements are too easy to bring to merchandise.
“You still don&39;t have to prove it works,” said Wolfe director of Public Citizen&39;s oversight of vitamins and other dietary supplements in 1994. The new rule is a product of that law meaning that the rule took nearly 13 years to develop.
Under the old regulations supplements were governed by the same rules that applied to producing foods such as cans of soup.
“The final rule will help ensure that dietary supplements are with controls that result in a consistent product free of contamination with accurate labeling,” said Dr. Robert E. Brackett director of FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
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