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title: "Dietary Supplement Labeling and Advertising Claims: Are Clinical Studies on the Full Product Required?"
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# Dietary Supplement Labeling and Advertising Claims: Are Clinical Studies on the Full Product Required?

  2009

Food and Drug Law Journal, Vol. 64, No. 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

The article provides an overview of the relevant substantiation requirements for dietary supplement claims and then reviews FTC’s and FDA’s guidance on key ingredient claims; relevant case law; use of key ingredient claims in the advertising of other consumer products; and the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau, Inc.’s (NAD’s) approach to evaluating key ingredient claims for dietary supplements.

Download the *Food and Drug Law Journal* article below. With permission from [FDLI](http://www.fdli.org).

 

 

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