Fda Dietary Supplement Safety

Guidance and regulatory information on food and dietary supplements.
Fda dietary supplement safety. Fsma is the most sweeping reform of fda s food safety authority in more than 70 years. This act gives fda new and enhanced. Food and drug administration fda does not have the authority to review dietary supplement products for safety and effectiveness before they are marketed.
These include monitoring mandatory reporting of serious adverse events by dietary supplement firms. The fda s adverse event reporting system may weed out a few dangerous supplements but only after they ve been on sale sometimes for many years says chuck bell programs director in cr s advocacy division which has pushed for years to reform dietary supplement regulation. The dietary supplement health and education act dshea of 1994 which amended the federal food drug and cosmetic act created a new regulatory framework for the safety and labeling of dietary.