Supplier Qualification Guideline Touts Flexibility, Defers Best Practices
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The Standardized Information on Dietary Ingredients Work Group publishes a guide to help supplement firms qualify ingredient suppliers under FDA good manufacturing practices. But with only three out of five major industry associations involved, not everyone is on board with the SIDI efforts.
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