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The FDA announced a final rule to require current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) for dietary supplements. The rule ensures that dietary supplements are made in a quality manner, do not contain contaminants or impurities, and are correctly labeled. No word on if they will grow some, and hassle the pharmaceutical industry in the same way.
"This rule helps to ensure the quality of dietary supplements so that consumers can be confident that the products they purchase contain what is on the label," said the Commissioner of Food and Drugs” In addition, because of recent amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, by the end of the year, industry will have to report all serious dietary supplement related adverse events to FDA." While most would say this is a good thing, it is somewhat hypocritical since they let Big Pharma get away with murder. One has to wonder if these Government morons are just going after the supplement industry because there employer (BIG PHARMA) has handed down the order.
The rules establish the cGMP needed to ensure quality all the way through the manufacturing, packaging, labeling, and storing of dietary supplements. The final regulation includes requirements for establishing quality control measures, design and constructing manufacturing plants, and testing ingredients and the finished product. It also includes requirements for record keeping and a way to handle consumer product complaints. Now if these cowards could go after the pharmaceutical industry in the same manner then maybe we would have some true reform.
"The final rule will help ensure that dietary supplements are manufactured with controls that result in a consistent product free of contamination, with accurate labeling," said Robert E. Brackett, Ph.D., director of FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. There is no word from them on if this is an attempt to destroy the alternative medicine industry.
Under the final regulation, manufacturers are required to evaluate the identity, purity, strength, and composition of their dietary supplements. If the supplements contain contaminants or do not contain the dietary ingredient they are represented to contain, the FDA will consider the products adulterated or misbranded.
They say that the aim of the final rule is to put a stop to the inclusion of the wrong ingredients, too much or too little of an ingredient, contamination by substances such as natural toxins, bacteria, pesticides, glass, lead and other heavy metals, as well as unacceptable packaging and labeling.
Now if these spineless fools's would actually grow a pair and go after the pharmaceutical industry in the same manner, we might all be a little bit safer. But fat chance of that happening anytime soon.
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