Public Meeting to Discuss Responsible Innovation in Dietary Supplements
May 16, 2019
8:30am - 4:00pm
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Wiley Auditorium
5001 Campus Drive
College Park, MD 20740
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public meeting entitled “Responsible Innovation in Dietary Supplements”. On February 11, 2019, the FDA announced new efforts to strengthen the regulation of dietary supplements by modernizing and reforming its oversight. The purpose of the public meeting is to give interested parties an opportunity to present ideas for facilitating responsible innovation in the dietary supplement industry while preserving the FDA’s ability to protect the public from unsafe, misbranded, or otherwise unlawful dietary supplements.
For more information, see the Federal Register notice announcing the meeting.
Important Dates
July 15, 2019 - Deadline to submit electronic or written comments
Submit comments electronically to docket folder FDA-2019-N-1388. See the Federal Register notice for additional information on submitting comments.
Meeting Materials
- Public Meeting Transcript (PDF 2.2 MB)
- Agenda (PDF 147 kB)
- Remarks by Norman "Ned" Sharpless, MD, Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs
- Speaker Biographies (PDF 207 kB)
- Speaker Presentation by FDA's Cara Welch: The Scope of Dietary Ingredients Under DSHEA (PDF 100 kB)
- Speaker Presentation by External Participant: United Natural Products Alliance (PDF: 638 kB)
- Speaker Presentation by External Participant: International Probiotics Association and International Food Additives Council (PDF: 2.1 MB)
- Speaker Presentation by External Participant: American Herbal Products Association (PDF: 661 kB)
- Speaker Presentation by External Participant: Amin Talati & Upadhye (PDF: 128 kB)
- Speaker Presentation by External Participant: Center for Science in the Public Interest (PDF: 1.2 MB)
- Speaker Presentation by External Participant: Health Canada (PDF: 1.6 MB)
- Speaker Presentation by External Participant: Natural Products Association (PDF: 973 kB)
- Speaker Presentation by External Participant: Council for Responsible Nutrition (PDF: 519 kB)
- Speaker Presentation by External Participant: Hyman Phelps & McNamara (PDF: 104 kB)
- Speaker Presentation by External Participant: Consumer HealthCare Products Association (PDF: 286 kB)