FDA Calls Citizens for Health, Announces Re-opening Comment Period on CAM Guidance

For Release May 23rd, 2007 Contact: Frank Herd, Jr -612.879.7583

Washington, DC & Minneapolis, MN - Citizens for Health Executive Director, Frank Herd, Jr, today received a call from the FDA assuring him that the agency has reopened the comment period on its “Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration,” and that the agency will accept comments through May 29th. This means that the FDA is honoring the deadline that was posted in April, but later retracted, saying it had been posted due to an employee error. Click here to send your comments now!

“The FDA’s main contact on the proposed guidance, Philip Chao, called to let us know the moment the comment period was re-opened and the amended deadline was posted on their site,” Mr. Herd said. “We immediately verified this, and now encourage anyone in the natural health community who is concerned about the potential implications of the proposed guidance to take this opportunity to ensure your voice is heard – there are only a few days left!”

“The FDA had already received more than 125,000 comments on this proposed guidance, mostly negative, when I spoke with Mr. Chao three weeks ago. Since then, more than 8,000 Citizens for Health members responded to our call for e-mails to the FDA urging them to honor the May 29th deadline,” Mr. Herd added. “This is clearly a grassroots victory for Citizens for Health, its constituents, and the natural health movement as a whole.”

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For more on there CAM Guidance, click here to read "FDA's'"Alternative' Reality" by Senior Policy Advisor, James Gormley.