The Do's and Dont's of Dietary Supplement Labeling
In February, the FDA announced it had recently sent warning letters to 10 companies for illegally selling dietary supplements because of unapproved claims
Dietary supplements are commonplace in the American diet. Indeed, so many Americans expect supplements to do most of the heavy nutritional lifting in their diets that “substitute” might be a more accurate name.
But while many consumers view supplements as a magic bullet or cure-all — and supplement manufacturers happily reinforce that viewpoint through their labeling — the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does in fact set limits on the types of statements that supplement manufacturers may make. To ignore those limits is to run the significant risk of receiving a warning letter from FDA. Warning letters are made public and being on the receiving end of one can damage a manufacturer’s brand.
Read Jennifer's full article in Quality Assurance & Food Safety magazine.
