U S Dietary Supplement Health And Education Act

Food and drug administration center for food safety and applied nutrition december 1 1995 dietary supplement health and educa tion act of 1994 for decades the food and drug administration regulated dietary supplements as foods in most circumstances to ensure that they were safe and wholesome and that their.

U s dietary supplement health and education act. It makes manufacturers responsible for the safety of these products and protects consumers from being misled about their intended purposes. Under the act supplements are effectively regulated by the fda for good manufacturing practices under 21 cfr part 111. A vitamin a mineral an herb. This act may be cited as the dietary supplement health and education act of 1994.

Under the dietary supplement health and education act of 1994 dshea. Manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements and dietary ingredients are prohibited from marketing products that are. The dietary supplement health and education act of 1994 dshea is a 1994 statute of united states federal legislation which defines and regulates dietary supplements. Whenever in this act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to or repeal of a section or other provision the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the federal food drug and cosmetic act.

After the nutrition advertising coordination act of 1991 failed a bipartisan coalition of senators led by utah s orrin hatch a republican and iowa s tom harkin a democrat launched an effort to pass the dietary supplement health and education act of 1994. The authors conducted two studies to examine the influence of the u s. Study 1 manipulated information about food and drug administration fda approval in the context o. In the united states dietary supplements are defined by the 1994 dietary supplement health and education act as products that are not used exclusively as food but are intended to be consumed in addition to an individual s diet.

The dietary supplement health and education act of 1994 which spells out regulations regarding the manufacture and sale of dietary supplements defines a dietary supplement as a product other than tobacco intended to supplement the diet that bears or contains one of more of the following dietary ingredients.