Comment · Mon, September 26, 2016 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Petition to reject the FDA's new NDI Draft Guidance for dietary supplements
What they were answering
SLC-Frank · 2 points
FDA draft guidance cuts both ways. On one hand, they hardly ever make final regulation. On other hand, these less formal guidance documents stick around, and industry (including retail) treats them as binding so as to not attract FDA's attention. The agency really should not govern this way at all, but when notice-and-comment is costly and opens the regs to legal challenge, that's what they do.
I'd sign a petition to repeal all draft guidance.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
The scary part about this new draft guidance, and what sets it apart from previous ones in my mind, is now the FDA started a new supplements enforcement division with its own separate funding. It is no longer underneath the foods division. This signals to me that they are ramping up to try and take down the supplement industry, and force it into a drug-like model.
http://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/ConstituentUpdates/ucm478303.htm