The dietary supplement industry’s experience with mandatory Good Manufacturing Practices provides a sobering illustration of what the personal-care sector could be up against if similar requirements are legislated as part of a cosmetics regulatory overhaul.
Supplement Industry Offers Cautionary Tale For Mandatory Cosmetic GMPs
Roughly six years after publication of FDA’s final rule establishing mandatory Good Manufacturing Practices in the dietary supplement sector, the industry’s noncompliance rate was still at nearly 70% in fiscal 2013, according to FDA data. How GMP requirements are laid out in forthcoming federal legislation to update FDA’s cosmetics oversight program could dictate the potential challenge before industry.
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