What Dietary Supplements Are You Taking: Does Your Health Care Provider Know? - It Matters and Here's Why

Food Labeling: Prominence of Calories, April 4, 2005.

Food Labeling: Serving Sizes of Products That Can Reasonably Be Consumed At One Eating Occasion; Updating of Reference Amounts Customarily Consumed; Approaches for Recommending Smaller Portion Sizes, April 4, 2005.

Food Labeling; Guidelines for Voluntary Nutrition Labeling of Raw Fruits, Vegetables, and Fish; Identification of the 20 Most Frequently Consumed Raw Fruits, Vegetables, and Fish; Reopening of the Comment Period April 4, 2005.

On May 5, 2005, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed to amend the egg labeling regulations after the egg industry asked FDA to allow safe handling statements to be placed on the inside lid of egg cartons.

Press release

Proposed rule

FDA posted A Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide in April 2005.

Responses to Questions about Codex and Dietary Supplements.

Transcript for Public Meeting: New Dietary Ingredients Meeting held on November 15, 2004.

Federal Register Notice: Dietary Supplements; Premarket Notification for New Dietary Ingredient Notifications; Public Meeting:

Joint FDA-NCI-ODS Workshop on Use and Misuse of Biomarkers as I ndicators of Cancer Risk Reduction Following Dietary Manipulation, July 12 & 13, 2005.

Meeting Notification:

TO GET PAST ISSUES OF FDA-DSFL, go to Electronic Information Networks:

FDA Web Page Addresses:

Dietary Supplements

Food Labeling and Nutrition

Infant Formula

Qualified Health Claims

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Other Federal Government Links:

Federal Trade Commission

Office of Dietary Supplements, NIH

US Department of Agriculture

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Food and Nutrition Service

Non-Federal Government Links:

National Academy of Sciences