
Opening the Dietary Supplement Floodgates
Historically, approximately 70% of dietary supplement notifications to FDA were rejected. This high rejection rate has had a chilling effect on submission of notifications for new dietary supplement ingredients. These rejections were usually not based on a specific violation of the Act (i.e., Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act), but one of many administrative state tools used by FDA to thwart implementation of a statute with which FDA did not agree including, but no