FDA Seeks New Authority To Restrict Supplement Access

The FDA has asked for the authority to implement an anti-supplement policy—we can’t let it happen. Action Alert!

The agency wants to institute “mandatory product listing” for dietary supplements. This policy sounds innocuous but creates a slippery slope towards regulations that would restrict your supplement choices. This is the same policy championed by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) that, with your help, we defeated last year. We need to keep up the pressure to make sure it doesn’t make a comeback this year.

The agency included mandatory product listing for supplements in its wish-list of legislative proposals for Congress to pass in FY 2024. Remember, too, that after we defeated Sen. Durbin’s efforts last year, he vowed to continue pushing for his anti-supplement policy this year.

Mandatory product listing for supplements sounds simple enough. It would allow the FDA to build a registry of the entire supplement industry. Companies would need to submit detailed information on every product they sell to the FDA. But don’t let this fool you—such a registry would be used by the FDA to target and eliminate products that the agency believes do not comply with its ridiculous regulations.