Front Matter

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Publication year: 2022

Front Matter

DEWITTY ON DIETARY SUPPLEMENT LAW Including Cannabis-Derived Ingredients Robert M. DeWitty Member of the Federal Courts of the District of Columbia, California, and Illinois 2022

Copyright © 2022 Robert M. DeWitty. All Rights Reserved.

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First published in 2022.

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ISBN 978-1-949884-74-6

Dedication

Thank you to my mother for spurring my education, the foundation upon which this project was built. Thank you to my son, whose continuing growth provided me the continuing focus for this project.

Preface

Being approached by an overseas client to obtain FDA "approval" of a dietary supplement led to the first edition of this Manual. While my motivation for reviewing and collecting laws relating to dietary supplements was to assist a client in securing a market advantage—for nothing says 'Buy This Product' for a dietary supplement like a stamp that reads 'FDA-approved', I became educationally motivated when I recognized, at that time, the discipline did not have a singly focused manual collecting the majority of case and statutory laws that discussed the manufacture, distribution, and packaging of dietary supplements. Then, practitioners were relegated to wide-net, state focused case law searches and FDA-prepared guidance papers. And even those search results led only to a few, ground-breaking legal cases; results that were not nuanced enough to make comparisons with the many varied fact scenarios existing in the dietary supplement industry. That was 2005, and the first edition of this Manual was the result: a collection and discussion of the significant number of legal cases, at the state and federal levels, that relate to dietary...