Pharmaceutical Executive December 6, 2023
Don Tracy, Associate Editor

National Library of Medicine study emphasizes inadequacies in ensuring the safety and efficacy of over-the-counter dietary supplements.

New research suggests that the FDA has fallen short in its regulation of the manufacturing practices for dietary supplements, according to a recent study published by the National Library of Medicine. For the study, the authors aimed to discover how efficient the FDA is when it comes to ensuring the safety and efficacy of dietary supplements.

Despite the establishment of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in 1994, which provided the agency with the authorization to promulgate good manufacturing practices for dietary supplements, the authors believe that the FDA has failed in this area. They further stress that they intended for...

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