History Of Dietary Supplement Regulation

Every health food store in the country campaigned for congressional action to stop fda from carrying out kesslers policy.

History of dietary supplement regulation. Under the dietary supplement health and education act of 1994. Stiff resistance to the regulations by supplement manufacturers trade associations politicians and especially the public at large is an important part of this story. Dietary supplement legislative history. Dietary supplements are considered safe until proven unsafe.

Kim i williamson df byers t koplan jp. Introduction origin of vitamins and early regulatory interest in supplements. Over time the scientific community discovered a total of 13 vitamins deemed as necessary for personal health. How vitamins revolutionized the way we think about food revealed that mention of vitamins first appeared in print in june 1912.

Am j public health 83 546 550. In 1994 the dietary supplement health and education act dshea defined dietary supplements as a category of food which put them under different regulations than drugs. Five years of dshea. However catherine price in her book vitamania.

The subject of this paper is the regulation of dietary supplements with the passage of the dietary supplement health and education act of 1994 dshea marked as a turning point. L tryptophan purported to improve one s health. Koplan jp annest jl layde pm rubin gl. Early regulation of dietary supplement health claims.

Food drug law j 54 623 644. Supplement regulation varies by country and even within countries so it d be quite an extensive project to write an article covering all jurisdictions on the planet. Vitamin and mineral supplement use and mortality in a u s. The paper closes with the passage of dshea and how it literally changed the definition and parameters of control of dietary supplements.

Regulation of dietary supplements. As a result i will specifically discuss the federal regulation of dietary supplements in the united states for this article. This paper examines the long history of the engagement of the us food and drug administration fda with dietary supplements. The actual history of dietary supplements is unclear.

Fda regulates dietary supplements under a different set of regulations than those covering conventional foods and drug products. The need for some further type of regulation of dietary supplements was obviated in 1989 when there was an outbreak of at least 1500 cases of eosinophilia myalgia syndrome caused by the use of substances containing l tryptophan an amino acid. The paper examines the history of regulation prior to dshea and then it proceeds to examine dshea itself as legislation.