FDA Could Stick With Current Advice On NDI Notifications, Old Ingredient Evidence
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA has little priority, and limited resources available for finalizing its 2016 draft guidance on NDI notifications and for establishing a process that certifies dietary ingredients as being available before October 1994, says regulatory attorney Miriam Guggenheim.For both of those developments, she says, "I'm not holding my breath."
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