Mon 25 Jun 2007
For the first time, makers of dietary supplements, including vitamins and herbal pills, will be required to test their products, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday. Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which passed in 1994, supplement makers were told they must be able to substantiate the safety of their ingredients.
Now, 13 years later, the FDA’s announcement represents the actualization of that requirement.
