Ullman Quoted in NutraIngredients-USA
February 19, 2019 | |Marc Ullman was quoted in a NutraIngredients-USA article, “Stakeholders cautiously optimistic on Gottlieb’s proposal for info protection in NDI filings.” The comments made by the FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, on the NDI’s issue have made dietary supplement industry stakeholders sit up and take notice.
“I’m encouraged just in that it is good to hear the commissioner acknowledge the issue. This is an important issue. Companies that take the initiative pioneer new ingredients into the trade deserve something better than to simply be knocked off and have their science used by other companies to get regulatory blessing,” Ullman said.
“But in theory this protection is already there. We have complained about this before; it has been a significant issue with astaxanthin, with PQQ. We have specifically requested that FDA police the marketplace. And nothing has been done,” Ullman added.
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