FDA HEALTH CLAIM FINAL RULE STAY-OF-ACTION SOUGHT
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA HEALTH CLAIM FINAL RULE STAY-OF-ACTION SOUGHT by a coalition including the American Preventive Medical Association, Citizens for Health, National Health Federation, and supplement manufacturers Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw. In a Jan. 21 petition to FDA submitted by counsel Jonathan Emord (Silver Spring, Md. law firm Alexander, Gebhardt, Aponte & Marks), the group insisted that the agency's Jan. 4 final rule disallowing health claims for five nutrient-disease relationships ("The Tan Sheet" Jan. 3, p. 7) violates First Amendment rights and therefore should be stayed.