[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 62 (Friday, March 29, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14102-14103]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-7639]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Dietary Supplement Labels Commission; Meetings

AGENCY: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, HHS.

ACTION: Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels: Notice of Meeting #3; 
Opportunity to Provide Comments.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is (a) 
providing notice of the second meeting of the Commission on Dietary 
Supplement Labels, and (b) soliciting oral and written comments.

DATES: (1) The Commission will meet April 26, 1996, from 8:30 a.m. to 
4:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time at the Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf, 
1300 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94133; (2) Written 
comments on the scope and intent of the Commission's objectives may be 
submitted up to 5:00 p.m. E.S.T. on June 30, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth D. Fisher, Ph.D., Executive 
Director, Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels, Office of Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion, Room 738G, Hubert H. Humphrey 
Building, 200 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, D.C. 20201, (202) 
205-5968.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Commission's Task

    Public Law 103-417, Section 12, authorized the establishment of a 
Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels whose seven members have been 
appointed by the President. The appointments to the Commission by the 
President and the establishment of the Commission by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services reflect the commitment of the President and 
the Secretary to the development of a sound and consistent regulatory 
policy on labeling of dietary supplements.
    The Commission is charged with conducting a study and providing 
recommendations for regulation of label claims and statements for 
dietary supplements, including the use of supplemental literature in 
connection with their sale and, in addition, procedures for evaluation 
of label claims. The Commission is expected to evaluate how best to 
provide truthful, scientifically valid, and non-misleading information 
to consumers in order that they may make informed health care choices 
for themselves and their families. The Commission's study report may 
include recommendations on legislation, if appropriate and necessary.

Announcement of Meeting

    The Commission's second meeting will be March 8, 1996, 8:30 a.m. to 
4:30 p.m. Central Time. The meeting will be held at the Radisson Hotel 
Salt Lake City Airport Coventary Room (Utah). The agenda will include 
(a) oral comments from interested parties and the general public, (b) 
identification of

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additional information needs, and (c) discussion of dietary supplement 
label information.

Public Participation at Meeting

    The meeting is open to the public. However, space is limited. Both 
oral and written comments from the public will be accepted, but oral 
comments at the meeting will be limited to a maximum of five minutes 
per presenter; thus, organizations and persons that wish to make their 
views known to the Commission should use the time for oral presentation 
to summarize their written comments. Members of the Commission may wish 
to question the presenters following each oral presentation. Please 
request the opportunity to present oral comments in writing and provide 
nine (9) copies of the written comments from which the oral 
presentation is abstracted to the address above by March 4, 1996. If 
you will require a sign language interpreter, please call Sandra 
Saunders (202) 260-0375 by 4:30 E.S.T. on March 4, 1996.

Written Comments

    By this notice, the Commission is soliciting submission of written 
comments, views, information and data pertinent to Commission's task. 
Comments should be sent to Kenneth D. Fisher, Executive Director of the 
Commission at the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 
Room 738G, Hubert Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Ave., SW., 
Washington D.C. 20201, by 5:00 p.m. E.S.T. on June 30, 1996.

    Dated: March 26, 1996.
Claude Earl Fox,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Disease Prevention and Health 
Promotion), Department of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. 96-7639 Filed 3-28-96; 8:45 am]
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