Dietary Supplement Regulatory Uniformity Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act so states and local governments generally cannot impose dietary-supplement requirements that are different from, in addition to, or not identical to federal requirements. A state or locality may ask HHS and FDA for an exemption by regulation after notice and hearing if its rule is more stringent than federal law or responds to a compelling local condition and still allows compliance with federal supplement law.
Who Benefits and How
Dietary supplement manufacturers, distributors, and retailers benefit from a more uniform national compliance baseline that can reduce state-by-state labeling, formulation, warning, or sales-rule variation. National retailers and online supplement sellers especially benefit because one federal standard is easier to operationalize across jurisdictions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
State regulators and local governments lose independent authority unless FDA grants an exemption, and they must prepare a formal application and satisfy the statutory standard before keeping a different rule. FDA and HHS must review exemption requests through notice-and-hearing rulemaking. Consumers may face fewer locally tailored supplement protections where states previously used stricter rules.
Key Provisions
- Preempts state and local dietary-supplement requirements that differ from, add to, or are not identical with federal FDCA requirements.
- Allows states and localities to seek an HHS or FDA exemption through regulation after notice and hearing.
- Requires exemption applicants to show a more stringent rule or a compelling local condition that does not conflict with federal compliance.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Preempts state and local dietary-supplement rules that differ from federal FDCA requirements while preserving an FDA-administered exemption path.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Retail
Primary Purpose
Preempts state and local dietary-supplement rules that differ from federal FDCA requirements while preserving an FDA-administered exemption path.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Dietary supplement manufacturers
- Supplement retailers
- FDA
- National retailers
Identified Costs
- State regulators
- Local governments
- FDA
- Consumers
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Mr. Langworthy introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "fda"
- → Food and Drug Administration
- "secretary"
- → HHS Secretary
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