Three decades after the passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), the regulatory framework governing supplements may no longer reflect the realities of modern markets. In our recent webinar "When the Status Quo Becomes the Risk: Dietary Supplements at a Regulatory Crossroads," Venable partner Todd Harrison examined how regulatory gaps and unclear rules have allowed problematic products and actors to exploit the system, often to the detriment of responsible companies and consumers. Harrison outlined a proposal for modernizing DSHEA, highlighting measures such as mandatory product listing to improve transparency, clearer statutory standards for ingredient innovation, and reforms to drug preclusion rules that affect whether certain compounds can be marketed as supplements. Together, these changes, he explained, are intended to replace regulatory ambiguity with more durable rules that strengthen oversight while preserving the innovation and access that DSHEA originally enabled.
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