Hi Everyone,

I'm writing today to inform you about the FDA NDI draft guidance on dietary supplements. This is highly important information as it relates to your access to affordable and safe supplements.

Over the 4th of July holiday, The FDA released it's new guidance for NDIs (New Dietary Ingredients).

This is the FDA's new position on DSHEA -- the law passed in 1994 that gave the public wide access to supplements and information about supplements.

The new Draft Guidance spells out regulation that will make it difficult for supplement companies to comply with the law. If a company wishes to bring a new ingredient to the market, or even changes a manufacturing process on an old nutrient (such as Vitamin C), the FDA will require the supplement company to submit an application, which the FDA must then approve. The supplement company then faces the possibility of having to provide proof of "safety" --meaning that the FDA wants to see drug-like testing on the NDI -- a very expensive process that most supplement companies cannot afford.

The FDA has allowed a 90 day comment period for consumers and supplement companies to reply to its new Draft Guidance. It's absolutely imperative that you contact the FDA to tell them that you rely on dietary supplements to maintain your health.

Here's a good place to start:

https://www.wellnessresources.com/fre...ents_as_drugs/

many of us here have already done so.. If you have not please do!

BTW, I was speaking with my naturopath this past week and he said that the FDA did indeed take away IV vitamin C but the uproar from the public was overwhelming and so they returned it shortly after.. so it seems that our collective voices can be heard at times.

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