Contamination of Botanical Dietary Supplements by Digitalis lanata

Abstract

For many years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulated botanical dietary-supplement ingredients, in most circumstances, under the provisions for food additives of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure that they were safe and wholesome. Currently, dietary supplements (such as botanical products, vitamins and minerals, amino acids, and tissue extracts) are regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, which includes several provisions that apply only to dietary supplements and dietary ingredients of dietary supplements. Included in these provisions was the removal of the ingredients of dietary supplements from regulation as food additives and . . .