"On January 4, 2011, President Obama signed into law the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (Public Law 111-353), which required the FDA to publish guidelines to clarify how new ingredients in dietary supplements must be evaluated for safety. The FDA released its draft guidance on July 5, 2011, and the comment period will remain open until October 3, 2011."
This is from an email response I received from my congressman. Wow, I did not even know this had happened already. I was under the impression that the comment period was open because the FDA is still mulling everything over. -Ken ________________________________ From: PTFerrance <ptf2...@bellsouth.net> To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 2:05 PM Subject: RE: CS>Durbin bill and FDA draft guidance I don’t know for sure but it would not surprise me with the push that pharma has been making to take over the supplement industry so they can reap big profits. I have read that some of the biggest supplement companies have been purchased by pharma companies in anticipation of what they hope will come. PT From:Ken & Nancy Bagwell [mailto:kenancy2...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 4:27 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: CS>Durbin bill and FDA draft guidance Wondering if anyone has any insight as to where this is at, right now. I was on regulations.gov, and saw comments from Bill Sardi and Jarrow (amongst many others). Very good. It sounds like the draft guidance issue has been given additional time to the public (Dec?) to enter comments. Also, does anyone know if there are any pharmaceutical companies that are directly involved in trying to seek these FDA and Durbin moves, through Freedom of Information Act? -Ken ________________________________ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1809 / Virus Database: 2085/4514 - Release Date: 09/23/11 No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1809 / Virus Database: 2085/4514 - Release Date: 09/23/11
