The Regulation of Dietary Supplement in the U.S. and Major Change in the Guidance for New Dietary Ingredient Notifications

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  • Tongtong Xu Former Employee of Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health, Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
  • Yaning Sun Translational Gerontology Branch, NIH Biomedical Research Center, 251 Bayview Blvd., Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA Dietary supplement has become a conservative item on daily menu of Americans. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) indicated that one in two Americans take dietary supplement on daily basis.

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https://doi.org/10.17140/aftnsoj-3-e011

Abstract

Dietary supplement has become a conservative item on daily menu of Americans. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) indicated that one in two Americans take dietary supplement on daily basis.1 Subsequently, the need of dietary supple-ment causes the booming of dietary supplement products on U.S. market. According to the Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) of the National Institute of Health (NIH), ap-proximately 50,000 dietary supplement products are currently available on U.S. market.

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2017-09-15

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Tongtong Xu, & Yaning Sun. (2017). The Regulation of Dietary Supplement in the U.S. and Major Change in the Guidance for New Dietary Ingredient Notifications. Advances in Food Technology and Nutrition Sciences, 3(1), e5-e6. https://doi.org/10.17140/aftnsoj-3-e011

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2017): Volume 3 Issue 1 2017

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