CRN priorities for CFSAN

Executive Summary

The Council for Responsible Nutrition asks FDA to prioritize providing guidance and conducting stakeholder meetings with industry on implementing the dietary supplement good manufacturing practices final rule, CRN says in comments submitted Aug. 29. Other CRN recommendations include FDA adding reviewers to expedite the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition's evaluation of adverse event reports, which supplement and OTC firms will be required to submit beginning in December under the AER law Congress enacted in 2006, and to amend the MedWatch form to include space to indicate whether consumers say they will allow their physicians to speak with firms' medical representatives (1"The Tan Sheet" Aug. 20, 2007, p. 13)...