Mike Montemarano, Associate Editor 07.05.22
Cara Welch, director of FDA’s Office of Dietary Supplement Programs (ODSP), discussed the agency’s legislative priorities during the American Conference Institute (ACI) and Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Dietary Supplements held in New York in June.
First off, the agency is discussing a number of options to increase its inspectional capacity, Welch said. According to the National Institutes of Health, at the time the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act was signed into law in 1994, an estimated 600 U.S. dietary supplement manufacturers marketed about 4,000 products.
With an increase to between 50,000 and 80,000 products on the market today, “I think we can all admit that the dietary supplements marketplace has changed since 1994,” Welch said. “Supply chains have globalized, and the internet was introduced as a retail and marketing channel. Products are precisely designed to include specific formulations and mixtures of ingredients, some of which are designer ingredients or highly concentrated and purified constituents.”
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First off, the agency is discussing a number of options to increase its inspectional capacity, Welch said. According to the National Institutes of Health, at the time the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act was signed into law in 1994, an estimated 600 U.S. dietary supplement manufacturers marketed about 4,000 products.
With an increase to between 50,000 and 80,000 products on the market today, “I think we can all admit that the dietary supplements marketplace has changed since 1994,” Welch said. “Supply chains have globalized, and the internet was introduced as a retail and marketing channel. Products are precisely designed to include specific formulations and mixtures of ingredients, some of which are designer ingredients or highly concentrated and purified constituents.”
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