US Supplement Market Growth: Is The Industry In Its Own Way?
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Executive Summary
Longtime supplement industry attorney Scott Bass says supplement manufacturers should work with FDA as an ally, including registering products with the agency pre-market, while FDA's second-in-command for supplement industry oversight, Robert Durkin, says the agency is not interested in preventing more safe products from reaching the market.
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