Targeted guidance on questions around NDINs and using import alerts to keep violative products off market are among supplement industry trade groups' suggestions for improving FDA oversight of the industry. Groups also continue asserting that the agency can strengthen its VMS product manufacturing and marketing oversight with its existing authorities.

Agency announces plan in statement by two deputy commissioners warning consumers about safety concerns regarding the semi-synthetic derivative of vincamine, "specifically concerns about the use of this ingredient by women of childbearing age." Recent findings by NIH National Toxicology Program's study with rats and rabbits indicate "vinpocetine may cause a miscarriage or harm fetal development," FDA says.