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Registration is open for the DSHEA Summit, a landmark event bringing together the architects of the law and leading industry voices, including current and former FDA officials.

Critics maintain the food ingredient GRAS program is broken, allowing manufacturers to circumvent FDA review and ultimately jeopardizing public health.

Editorial credit: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com An argument between FDA and industry over the legality of NAC in dietary supplements essentially forces Amazon--and other retailers--to take sides. Amazon confirmed this week it’s in the process of removing from its website dietary supplements containing NAC (N-acetyl-L-cysteine). FDA last year asserted in warning letters that NAC couldn’t be lawfully marketed in dietary supplements because it was first studi...