With his February 3, 2015, announcement that four national retail chains were selling herbal supplements without any herbs in them, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman opened the door on an unprecedented wave of negative publicity for the dietary supplement industry. In the days following the disclosure of the...
Signed into law by President Clinton on October 25, 1994 after being adopted by unanimous consent by a Congress that received in excess of 2.5 million letters urging its passage, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) expressly provides that dietary supplements and the ingredients therein...
Despite the popular mythology surrounding the “unregulated dietary supplement industry,” the reality is that both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have significant regulatory authority over the marketing of supplements. FDA’s primary jurisdiction covers product labels and labeling while FTC is focused on...
Whenever Dr. Pieter Cohen of Harvard University publishes another article for the national media or does another of his seemingly endless series of television appearances decrying the dietary supplement industry as under-regulated and irresponsible, it’s natural to expect that retailers will fill face the immediate consumer questions. USA Today’s...
