Mandatory Product Listing for Dietary Supplements
The Food and Drug Administration regulates dietary supplements, but it can’t fully regulate what it can’t see. With well over 50,000 different dietary supplements in the U.S. market, responsible industry leaders are calling on Congress to establish mandatory product listing of supplements to address this challenge.
"The transparency of mandatory product listing benefits all stakeholders. A publicly accessible registry of product details would enable consumers, healthcare providers, pharmacists, retailers and other stakeholders—in addition to regulators—to access information about products and their ingredients. Supplement manufacturers should support mandatory product listing to deliver on the accountability and transparency that regulators are rightly demanding and that consumers deserve," CRN's President and CEO Steve Mister explains this short video.
Advancing mandatory product listing is one of CRN's priority initiatives.
Learn more about why mandatory product listing is important to the future of the dietary supplement industry, as well as other stakeholders
From CRN's blog, Supplemental: Pondering New Platforms, Straw Men, and Driver’s Licenses
More:
- Pew: Congress must pass mandatory product listing legislation to protect consumers
- Stakeholder group members explain support for mandatory product listing
- What's next for the supplement industry?
Additional thought leadership on MPL from the archives:
A Mandatory Dietary Supplement Registry: Transparency as ‘disinfectant’
RAPS Regulatory Focus
Mandatory Product Listing: Beneficial, or Burdensome?
WholeFoods Magazine
Stop the sale of bogus supplements as a cure or treatment for COVID-19
The Hill