Last July, the FDA stunned supplement manufacturers with its proposed Guidance that would require all dietary ingredients introduced into the marketplace since 1994 to undergo drug-like safety testing prior to marketing. The tests could cost millions of dollars per each new ingredient, and that includes each variation on that ingredient too. These requirements would not make supplements any safer than they are today and would require supplement makers to lay aside 20 years of profits to conduct the tests. To make matters worse, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs as the supplement industry would be forced to remove products from store shelves.

While many of these dietary supplements have been on the market for over a decade without reported deaths or significant side effects, the FDA’s proposed new dietary ingredient guideline appears to be nothing more than an expensive paperwork exercise intended to eradicate many safe products from the marketplace.

Besides, we do not have to compromise with a document that has no basis in law, thwarts the clearly stated intent of Congress when it passed DSHEA and is absolutely unnecessary, even counterproductive.

This Guidance directly threatens your supplements and your health business, if you have one. By requiring very-expensive safety testing for many of the supplements that you manufacture, distribute, sell and stock on store shelves, it will guarantee that a high percentage of those products will not survive the process. They will either be priced beyond the reach of your customers or else be removed from store shelves and the marketplace in general because they were not “safety tested” to the FDA’s satisfaction. The FDA has a reputation for harshly applying safety rules to “dangerous” supplements while blissfully looking the other way as its drug-company overlords’ pharmaceuticals kill hundreds of thousands of Americans year in and year out.

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