The Regulation of Dietary Supplement in the U.S. and Major Change in the Guidance for New Dietary Ingredient Notifications

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1Former Employee of Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health, Department of Food
Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
2Translational Gerontology Branch, NIH Biomedical Research Center, 251 Bayview Blvd.,
Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.Dietary supplement has become a conservative item on daily menu of Americans.
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) indicated that one in two
Americans take dietary supplement on daily basis.1 Subsequently, the need of dietary supplement
causes the booming of dietary supplement products on U.S. market. According to the
Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) of the National Institute of Health (NIH), approximately
50,000 dietary supplement products are currently available on U.S. market.