Proposed health claims by Weider not based on "authoritative statements" -- FDA.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
ANTIOXIDANT/SUPPLEMENT HEALTH CLAIMS BASED ON USDA, NIH, CDC STATEMENTS BARRED because the statements are not "authoritative" as defined by the FDA Modernization Act, FDA says in nine interim final rules published in the June 22 Federal Register. The rules respond to notifications by Weider Nutrition International that it planned to use health claims for several vitamin and supplement products under the recently enacted FDAMA procedures providing for use of health claims without FDA preclearance if they are based on "authoritative statements" by government scientific bodies.