Year: 2006
Resolution Number: 9
Action Taken: No Action
Status:
Author(s): Stephen J. Bachmeyer, MD
Sponsor: Stephen J. Bachmeyer, MD
On behalf of:
Committee: B (Legislation)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS urge Governor Granholm and the Michigan legislature to create a public health task force to examine the supplements available to Michigan citizens, targeting the manufacturers themselves, in order to create a useable spectrum reflecting the overall quality of each company’s manufacturing standards, specifically noting the best and the worst, and to publish this regularly for physicians to have at their disposal, thus allowing physicians to gain a sense of which companies to trust over others; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to urge the federal legislature and Food and Drug Administration to create policies that will allow regulation and control of all supplemental products, similar to the regulation it imposes on the pharmaceutical companies.RATIONALE: This resolution asks for a state and federal effort to address the issue of regulating dietary supplements. The Reference Committee did not believe that the state had the necessary infrastructure to adequately oversee this function. Therefore, the Reference Committee explored the possibility of the second resolved that asks the AMA to ask the federal government to further regulate dietary supplements. The Reference Committee reviewed existing AMA policy on dietary supplements. AMA policy already states that FDA pre-market approval for dietary supplements; require supplements to meet U.S. pharmacopoeia standards for quality, purity, packaging, and labeling; require manufacturers to submit adverse event reports to the FDA; and reclassify dietary supplements that contain anabolic steroids or their precursors as drugs subject to the controlled substances act. Given the extent of AMA policy that already exists on this topic, the Reference Committee did not see the need to take any further action.
RESOLVED: That MSMS urge Governor Granholm and the Michigan legislature to create a public health task force to examine the supplements available to Michigan citizens, targeting the manufacturers themselves, in order to create a useable spectrum reflecting the overall quality of each company’s manufacturing standards, specifically noting the best and the worst, and to publish this regularly for physicians to have at their disposal, thus allowing physicians to gain a sense of which companies to trust over others; and be it further RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to urge the federal legislature and Food and Drug Administration to create policies that will allow regulation and control of all supplemental products, similar to the regulation it imposes on the pharmaceutical companies.RATIONALE: This resolution asks for a state and federal effort to address the issue of regulating dietary supplements. The Reference Committee did not believe that the state had the necessary infrastructure to adequately oversee this function. Therefore, the Reference Committee explored the possibility of the second resolved that asks the AMA to ask the federal government to further regulate dietary supplements. The Reference Committee reviewed existing AMA policy on dietary supplements. AMA policy already states that FDA pre-market approval for dietary supplements; require supplements to meet U.S. pharmacopoeia standards for quality, purity, packaging, and labeling; require manufacturers to submit adverse event reports to the FDA; and reclassify dietary supplements that contain anabolic steroids or their precursors as drugs subject to the controlled substances act. Given the extent of AMA policy that already exists on this topic, the Reference Committee did not see the need to take any further action.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Task Force Examining Quality of Supplemental Companies and Their Products.