Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals Inc. (fka RCPIQ)

[thefamilyman]

The Snopes info is from 2005 and does not address the current threat. Current law allows the FDA to implement regulations for vitamins and supplements introduced after 1994. The FDA recently proposed to implement such new regulations and there was an outcry over the severity of their proposal. And rightly so... Their new requirements were similiar to those for prescription drugs and would have mean't that very few such supplements would ever make it to market. After all who's going to pay for the studies for substances that for the most part, can not be patented.

And since they were going to apply it retroactive to 1994, many substances currently on the market would have to comply with the requirement. This would probably have resulted in many substances being taken off the market. I do not believe that this FDA threat has been defeated at this point. I think the link below is on point.

http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-new-sneak-attack-on-supplements/