IOM Urges Vigorous, Consistent Process For Evaluating Food, Supplement Health Claims

May 12, 2010: 08:36 AM EST

In a report sponsored by the FDA, the U.S. Institute of Medicine urged the agency to take as vigorous a regulatory approach toward food and nutritional supplement health claims as it does toward medication and medical technology approvals. The IOM said there is no scientific reason to use different standards when assessing the health benefit claims of food ingredients and drugs. They both can significantly affect people's well-being. According to the IOM, the FDA has been hampered in evaluating food supplement health claims because it does not have a broadly accepted assessment process. The IOM suggested a consistent framework the FDA could use to judge the validity of biomarkers used in studies provided as evidence to support product health and safety claims.

"IOM Report Recommends Framework to Evaluate Science Behind Health Claims for Foods and Drugs; Calls for Equal Rigor in Assessing Food Claims and Drug Approvals", The National Academies, May 12, 2010

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