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Alliance for Natural Health On November 29, 2011
http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-food-detention-powers-endanger-food-and-supplements
They no longer need evidence that a product is harmful. Just a suspicion that there’s an error in the paperwork.
The Food Safety Modernization Act [1] (FSMA) was signed into law on January 4 of this year. For the past several months we’ve been sharing our concern over one of the FSMA’s mandates that eventually developed into the disastrous NDI draft guidance [2]. There are only a few days left to tell the FDA what you think about these new anti-supplement rules—FDA’s public comment period ends this Friday [3], December 2. Please take action today [4], if you haven’t done so already!
There is another rule mandated by the FSMA, which is currently being implemented, that we also want to highlight. It gives the FDA wider authority to detain food products, including supplements [5]. Under the previous law, in order to administratively detain food, the FDA had to show “credible evidence” that a food presents “serious adverse health consequences or death to humans and animals.” The new rule gives the FDA enhanced authority to detain any food or supplement they have “reason to believe” may be “adulterated” or “misbranded.”
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