August 2006

AHPA to create "ODI Substantiation Database"

The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) is creating a centralized “ODI Substantiation Database” and is requesting that companies that have sold dietary supplements and dietary ingredients since at least 1994 submit information to AHPA that records which “old dietary ingredients” (ODIs) they marketed prior to October 15, 1994. AHPA is specifically soliciting pre-1994 printed records, such as labels, product catalogues, invoices, packing lists, certificates of analysis, product specification sheets, and production or packaging records, which document the marketing or sale of individual dietary ingredients or their presence in a company’s product line.

When the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act (DSHEA) became law, it defined the term “new dietary ingredient” (NDI) as “a dietary ingredient that was not marketed in the United States before October 15, 1994.” DSHEA also stated that the term “does not include any dietary ingredient which was marketed in the United States before October 15, 1994,” and the industry has come to refer to these prior-marketed ingredients as ODIs.

To participate in this “call for records,” send copies of any dated materials with a date earlier than October 15, 1994. The most useful records will be those that clearly identify the ingredients included in products that were marketed in the U.S. prior to that date, in a form that would today be recognized as a dietary supplement. Records should describe the ingredient(s) in as much detail as possible. Send all records to:

AHPA
ODI Substantiation Database
8484 Georgia Ave., #370
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Source: American Herbal Products Association, www.ahpa.org

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