FDA’s top official on Wednesday announced a new working group within his agency to improve oversight of the dietary supplement industry.
FDA’s top official on Wednesday announced the creation of a working group within his agency to improve oversight of the dietary supplement industry, reflecting concerns over FDA’s ability to manage risks in a sector that has grown 10-fold over the last quarter century.
“I’ve formed a dietary supplement working group within FDA to take a hard look at what more the FDA can be doing within our existing authorities, including re-examining our own internal operating structure and procedures—and what new authorities might make sense,” Gottlieb announced during a speech in Washington at the FDLI [Food and Drug Law Institute] Enforcement, Litigation and Compliance Conference. “We have some specific, new policy measures that we plan to pursue when it comes to modernizing our overall approach to dietary supplements.”
Since passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), the industry has grown from US$4 billion to more than $40 billion, with more than 50,000 products on the market, Gottlieb observed.