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Proposed Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements

Committee on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements

Food and Nutrition Board

Board on Life Sciences

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.

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Support for this project was provided by Food and Drug Administration under contract number 223-00-2458. The views presented in this report are those of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements and are not necessarily those of the funding agencies.

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National Research Council

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COMMITTEE ON THE FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING THE SAFETY OF DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS

BARBARA O.SCHNEEMAN (Chair),

Departments of Nutrition and Food Science, Division of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, and Office of University Outreach, University of California, Davis

DANIEL L.AZARNOFF,

D.L.Azarnoff Associates and Clinical/Regulatory Affairs, Cellegy Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco, California

CINDY LYNN CHRISTIANSEN,

Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Bedford V.A. Hospital, and Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts

ALICE M.CLARK,

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Mississippi, Oxford

NORMAN R.FARNSWORTH,

Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago

ADRIANE FUGH-BERMAN,

Department of Health Care Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. (until April 2002).

TED GANSLER,

Medical Information Strategy, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia

PHILIP S.GUZELIAN,

Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver

ELIZABETH JEFFERY,

Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana

JOSEPH LAU,

Division of Clinical Care Research, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

LARS NOAH,

University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville (until January 2002)

SUSAN S.PERCIVAL,

Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Florida, Gainesville

CHERYL L.ROCK,

Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla

Consultants

EDWARD A.BORTNICHAK,

Strategic Value Assessment, Sanofi-Synthelabo, New York, New York

KENNETH FISHER,

Washington, D.C.

LEWIS A.GROSSMAN,

Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C.

Staff

ALLISON A.YATES, Study Director

MARILEE K.SHELTON, Program Officer

ALICE VOROSMARTI, Research Associate

VIVICA KRAAK, Research Associate

SYBIL BOGGIS, Senior Project Assistant

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FOOD AND NUTRITION BOARD

CUTBERTO GARZA (chair),

Division of Nutritional Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

ROBERT M.RUSSELL (vice chair),

Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts

VIRGINIA A.STALLINGS (vice chair),

Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

LARRY R.BEUCHAT,

Center for Food Safety and Quality Enhancement, University of Georgia, Griffin

BENJAMIN CABALLERO,

Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

ROBERT J.COUSINS,

Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville

SHIRIKI KUMANYIKA,

Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia

LYNN PARKER,

Child Nutrition Programs and Nutrition Policy, Food Research and Action Center, Washington, D.C.

ROSS L.PRENTICE,

Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington

A.CATHARINE ROSS,

Department of Nutrition, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

BARBARA O.SCHNEEMAN,

Departments of Nutrition and Food Science, Division of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, and Office of University Outreach, University of California, Davis

ROBERT E.SMITH,

R.E.Smith Consulting, Inc., Newport, Vermont

STEVE L.TAYLOR,

Department of Food Science Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

CATHERINE E.WOTEKI,

College of Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames

BARRY L.ZOUMAS,

Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Staff

ALLISON A.YATES, Director

LINDA D.MEYERS, Deputy Director

GERALDINE KENNEDO, Administrative Assistant

GAIL SPEARS, Staff Editor

GARY WALKER, Financial Associate

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BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES

COREY S.GOODMAN (chair),

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

R.ALTA CHARO,

Law and Medical Ethics, University of Wisconsin at Madison

JOANNE CHORY,

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California

DAVID J.GALAS,

Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, California

BARBARA GASTEL,

Department of Journalism, Texas A&M University, College Station

JAMES M.GENTILE,

Natural Science Division, Hope College, Holland, Michigan

LINDA E.GREER,

Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC

ED HARLOW,

Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

ELLIOTT MEYEROWITZ,

Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

ROBERT T.PAINE,

Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle

GREGORY A.PETSKO,

Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

STUART L.PIMM,

Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University, New York

JOAN B.ROSE,

Department of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

GERALD M.RUBIN,

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland

BARBARA A.SCHAAL,

Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

RAYMOND L.WHITE,

DNA Sciences, Inc., Fremont, California

Staff

FRANCES SHARPLES, Director

MARILEE K.SHELTON, Program Officer

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Foreword

The Committee on the Evaluation of the Safety of Dietary Supplement Ingredients was asked to develop a framework for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to evaluate the safety of dietary supplement ingredients. It should include, from a science-based perspective, a system for prioritizing review of dietary supplement ingredients that could be extended to new ingredients as notifications regarding intent to market were submitted by manufacturers. Although evaluation of data regarding the efficacy of such ingredients to maintain health is of interest to many, a review of these data was specifically not included in the charge to the committee. Thus, what follows in this report is a proposed framework for prioritizing and evaluating the safety of dietary supplements based on existing information available to FDA and others.

The committee is now in the process of evaluating six dietary supplement ingredients in a mock evaluation following the process outlined in this report. Our expectations is that by (1) the experience of applying the proposed framework to develop prototype monographs on these ingredients, albeit within the constraints of an outside organization, and (2) the review of comments solicited from various stakeholders regarding the proposed framework, the committee will be able to revise and further elaborate the proposed system, resulting in a final, fully developed framework to provide to FDA.

Although this study is under the primary management of the staff of the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), it is being conducted as a collaborative project within The National Academies by FNB and the Board on Life Sciences (BLS) of the Division of Earth and Life Studies.

The committee was assisted in this challenging first task by the invaluable contributions of a number of individuals. Christine Lewis Taylor, FDA’s Project Officer, met with the committee early in its deliberations. We appreciated her clear presentation about the committee’s task. The committee also recognizes the significant contributions made by two members of the committee who resigned during the development of the report, Lars Noah and Adrianne Fugh-Berman; their insights were very valuable to the development of the proposed process. We also acknowledge the real loss experienced by the committee and its progress in the untimely death of committee member Dr. Norman Gillis last year as the committee was just beginning this process. Finally, we gratefully appreciate the assistance of Stephen F.McNamara, of Hyman, Phelps, and

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McNamara, for his technical review of Chapter 1, and of Janice Rice Okita, a new FNB program officer working on the monograph development phase of this project, for her assistance with the toxicology section in Chapter 4, Key Factors.

The committee was greatly assisted by the very able work of Marilee Shelton, program officer for BLS, who has provided significant assistance to the management and conceptual development of the framework; her efforts to the move the project forward have been key to the process. In addition, Allison Yates, Study Director, has provided valuable insight and input for accomplishing the task of the committee. We also greatly appreciate the able and dedicated assistance of Alice Vorosmarti, research associate; Vivica Kraak, research associate, who joined the project as Alice Vorosmarti went on leave; and Sybil Boggis, senior project assistant. We thank Gail Spears for her editorial advice, Gary Walker for financial management, and members of IOM’s Office of Reports and Communication for assistance in the production and dissemination of the report. Finally, we would like to thank the FNB and BLS reviewers, Robert W.Russell, Tufts University; Robert J.Cousins, University of Florida; and Linda E.Greer, Natural Resources Defense Council for their comments on the clarity of the report.

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s (NRC) Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

Joseph Betz, National Institutes of Health

Joseph Borzelleca, Virginia Commonwealth University

D.Craig Brater, Indiana University School of Medicine

Steven Dentali, Dentali Associates

Sanford A.Miller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

R.William Soller, Consumer Healthcare Products Association

Meir Stampfer, Harvard University

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Bernadette Marriott, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, appointed by the Institute of Medicine, and Catherine Woteki, Iowa State University, appointed by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The coordinator and monitor were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

As chair of the committee, I want to thank my fellow committee members for their commitment to the work of the committee under a rather demanding time schedule. Their quick and constructive responses to the many drafts of the report made meeting the deadline possible.

Barbara O.Schneeman, Committee Chair

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