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The initiatives — a regulatory strategy, an open public meeting, and a draft guidance document for industry — are steps the F.D.A. has taken in the implementation of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.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

Studies of dietary supplements have come under growing scrutiny ever since Cytodyne Technologies, maker of Xenadrine RFA-1, was found liable in a class-action lawsuit and ordered to pay $12 million for making exaggerated and false claims about its product’s safety and effectiveness.
The New York Times reported that Superior Court Judge Ronald L. Styn said […]

Rexall Sundown Inc., a leading manufacturer of vitamins and dietary supplements, agreed to pay up to $12 million to settle a federal suit that accused it of making exaggerated claims about Cellasene, a product the company said substantially reduced cellulite.
“Hundreds of thousands of consumers were misled by claims for this product,” said Howard Beales, director […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a series of actions designed to protect Americans from potentially serious risks of dietary supplement products containing ephedra.
The results of a RAND Corporation study commissioned by the National Institutes of Health, as well as other recent studies, provide additional evidence that ephedra may be […]