SIDI could be useful for NDIs
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA expects the Standardized Information on Dietary Ingredients program to be a "valuable tool" for collecting new dietary ingredient notification information, Council for Responsible Nutrition VP for Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Andrew Shao tells supplement industry executives at CRN's annual conference Oct. 4. FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition director of dietary supplement programs, Bill Frankos, told CRN it provides the "same type of information that FDA looks for in those notifications that they never get." In his presentation, Shao provided an overview of SIDI, a voluntary program established by supplement industry trade groups in October 2006 to simplify and standardize the exchange of information between ingredient suppliers and product manufacturers (1"The Tan Sheet" Oct. 23, 2006, p. 8). CFSAN Director Robert E. Brackett stated NDIs marketed without undergoing the NDI notification process is one of the agency's top concerns...
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