Supplement Group: FDA Move To Ban Vinpocetine Is 'Legally Deficient'

November 14, 2016 at 4:11 PM
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) put FDA on notice it has legal concerns with the agency's tentative decision to ban vinpocetine as a dietary ingredient. The supplement industry group also asserted in a letter to FDA Monday (Nov. 7) that the proposed ban undermines the dietary supplement industry's confidence in the new dietary ingredient notification (NDI) process. “In addition to being bad policy, the notice is legally deficient in several respects,” the group wrote to FDA. CRN complained that...


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