Senate Majority Leader Whip Dick Durbin is already getting opposition to his bills to list all dietary supplements and ban Tianeptine and other dangerous products. It comes from the Alexandria, VA-based Alliance for Natural Health USA, representing at least some of the $50 billion supplements industry.
The Alliance says it
Continue Reading Dietary supplements industry wants to bring down Durbin reform bills
There has not been much change in the dietary supplements world since Congress passed and President Bill Clinton signed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (“DSHEA”). That 1994 statute defines and sets the regulator bounds for dietary supplements,
The 1994 law exempts dietary and herbal supplements from
Continue Reading Durbin wants some changes to 30-year-old law on dietary supplements
It’s Dec. 24, do you know where your name is?
Here at Food Safety News we’ve been checking the year-end Naughty & Nice Lists and we’re ready to nominate some names. When it comes to candy or coal, one thing is as sure as Santa’s annual review — every
Continue Reading We checked it twice: The good, the bad and on the bubble
Citing fragmented food safety oversight, which is split up between 15 federal agencies, two lawmakers want Congress to scrap the current system and the ineffective laws that regulate it.
The Safe Food Act could weave the patchwork system “where no single voice guides industry, retailers and consumers” into a seamless
Continue Reading Bill for Safe Food Act seeks to consolidate federal oversight
A couple of years ago, after reports surfaced about deaths that might be attributable to popular energy drinks, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) demanded that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigate the potentially dangerous levels of caffeine that may be involved. Instead of an investigation, FDA is now
Continue Reading Energy Drink Makers Get ‘Guidance’ But No Investigation Into Deaths
When Food Safety News began, back in the wee hours of the Obama administration, our plan was to plow deep in the fields that directly involved food safety, but to consciously avoid distractions into other areas that might be just tangentially related. This is harder for journalists to do than
Continue Reading Letter From the Editor: Time for Supplements
