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Speaking with NutraIngredients+ at the recent SupplySide Global, Israelsen, who was also one of the key architects of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), explained the history of the NDI (new dietary ingredient) provision in the bill, and the last-minute dilemma faced by the drafters.
“We got to a point [in the negotiations around DSHEA] where the question was asked by the opposition side, ‘What do we do with all these ingredients, and what about new things?’ And the trigger point was concern expressed by the pharma industry to the other side,” Israelsen said.
The pharma industry was looking for some measure of…