SSW Presentation Provides Rebuttal to Skeptical Media

All too often, in the media, on Capitol Hill or when meeting with officials overseas, I hear it said that the dietary supplement industry is not regulated in the United States.

At SupplySide West, I will explain that nothing is further from the truth.

Back in 2003, CRN’s outside counsel Peter Hutt (who previously served as FDA chief counsel) wrote “FDA Statutory Authority to Regulate the Safety of Dietary Supplements,” identifying specific regulations impacting supplements and demonstrating the myriad ways FDA has oversight over the safety of such products. Published in the American Journal of Law and Medicine (2005), Hutt's article demonstrated FDA does indeed have regulatory authority over the supplement industry. 

Given the recent changes in the law -- namely, enactment of the adverse event reporting law, the issuance of the GMP regulations and the changes made by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) earlier this year -- CRN asked Hutt to update his work which is now complete. It provides a powerful rebuttal to those who claim the U.S. dietary supplement industry is “unregulated."

Editor's note: Venardos's presentation, "The Top 10 Issues Confronting the Global Supplement Industry and What Industry Should Be Doing about Them," will take place on Tuesday, October 11 from 12 to 12:50 p.m. For more information, please click here.