Harkin, Hatch Take Swing At FDA Pitch To Evaluate NDIs As Food Additives
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The staunch industry allies explain their concerns about the potential for regulating new dietary ingredients as food additives in a letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg. They point out DSHEA includes “an essential exclusion of dietary ingredients from the statutory definition of food additives.”
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