Supplement Health Claim Approval Costs Unaffordable, Economist Says
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Dietary supplement companies would have to spend between $58 mil. and $348 mil. for NDA-type approval for each of six health claims they seek to make under FDA's significant scientific agreement standard, an Emory University economist maintains.
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