Medical foods three-category regulatory approach suggested by ASPEN.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
MEDICAL FOODS THREE-PART CATEGORIZATION SUGGESTED by the American Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition as an effective structure to define and regulate products encompassed under the "medical foods" classification. In April 24 comments to FDA, ASPEN "strongly urges the agency to interpret the statutory definition of `medical food' broadly to encompass foods designated to meet both physiological and physical limitations in a person's ability to ingest or digest conventional food."
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