The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has worked feverishly over the last few years to hold dietary supplement companies accountable to good manufacturing practices and reasonable product claims by performing hundreds of inspections and sending countless warning letters. But with the recent departure of Daniel Fabricant, PhD, former head of FDA’s Division of Dietary Supplement Programs—whose tenure at the agency was characterized by aggressive policing of supplements—we seem to have entered a period of focus on food product claims. Warning letters sent in July to such companies as Dr. Bronner’s, Atlantic Trading Co. and Deer Garden Foods for health claims made on their food products are similar in tone to claims-related letters sent by FDA to supplement companies. Read more: newhope360/regulatory/are-food-companies-new-target-fda-drug-claim-enforcement
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 20:00:02 +0000
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