U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced three new initiatives for regulating dietary supplements.

The initiatives — a regulatory strategy, an open public meeting, and a draft guidance document for industry — are steps the F.D.A. has taken in the implementation of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.

“These initiatives refine the direction the agency is taking to regulate dietary supplements,” FDA Acting Commissioner Lester M. Crawford said. “We now have a clear roadmap to share with the dietary supplement industry, while at the same time giving consumers a higher level of assurance about the safety of dietary supplement products and the reliability of their labeling.”

FDA said it intends to improve the transparency, predictability, and consistency of its scientific evaluations and regulatory actions to protect consumers against unsafe dietary supplements and dietary supplements making unauthorized, false, or misleading claims.

(via U.S. Food and Drug Administration)