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Forebodings: looming legislation may hurt supplement users.
For the past several years, critics of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) have steadily been building their case to amend or overturn this important and beneficial law. Now, the combination of federal legislation and the generally negative attitude about dietary supplements in Congress is on the verge of changing the industry as we know it.
Frankly, if current legislation passes, supplement manufacturers could lose up to 50 percent of the value of their businesses. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would gain unprecedented regulatory powers over dietary supplement products in some cases, even greater than those for drugs. And introducing new ingredients would be next to impossible.
Feeling the Pinch
What this means for you, the consumer, is higher prices and fewer choices. Quite simply, some products you may be currently using could disappear from the marketplace altogether.
I know this may sound alarmist, but in reality', it really is alarming. And it's happening because there seems to be an almost unshakeable belief by some members of Congress that dietary supplements are inherently unsafe and that consumers need to be protected from these so-called dangerous products. In fact, this was the very subject of a Senate hearing where I was called as a witness recently.
I'd like to say that my testimony put to rest any concerns thai supplements present a health hazard and that the law that regulates them is ample, if not always adequately enforced. It may have swayed some senators, but there are others whose beliefs are still pretty, firm]y entrenched.
Indeed, on the red same day as the Senate hearing, new legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives that would change the way all supplements except for vitamins and minerals would be regulated. While we are still analyzing this new legislation, it appears to be yet another bill that assumes that there is something inherently wrong with the current law.
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