2020–2025 Non-Botanical Dietary Supplements Expert Committee Work Plan

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Focus Areas

  • Non-botanical (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes) dietary supplement ingredient and product monographs

Expert Committee Charge

  • The Non-Botanical Dietary Supplements Expert Committee is responsible for the development of new and revision of existing monographs and their associated reference materials for non-botanical dietary supplement ingredients and products.

Key Issues

  • Work with FDA and stakeholders to develop new and improve existing non-botanical dietary supplement monographs
  • Work with FDA and stakeholders to improve existing non-botanical drug monographs
  • Modernize assay methods by titration to high-performance liquid chromatography and other advanced methods as appropriate

Non-Botanical Dietary Supplements (NBDS) Expert Committee Roster Expert Committee Members 

  • Raimar Loebenberg, Chair, Pro tem
  • Dennis Gorecki, Vice Chair
  • Mike Bradley
  • Wei Gao
  • James Harnly
  • Philip Haselberger
  • Joy Joseph
  • Shauna Roman
  • Jean Schoeni
  • Ed Shneyvas
  • Aniko Solyom
  • Karunakar Sukuru

Government Liaisons:

  • Lawrence Perez, FDA
  • Michael Steller, Health Canada

Expert Advisors: 

  • Wilmer Perera 
  • Eike Reich

Associated Expert Bodies

  • Dietary Supplements and Herbal Medicines Nomenclature Joint Subcommittee
  • Probiotics Expert Panel
  • Modern Analytical Methods Joint Subcommittee

Standards Development

  • The latest ballot results can be found here (results can be filtered by particular ECs).
  • The status of Revisions, Deferrals, Cancellations, Commentary, and Index for each USP–NF and Supplement can be found here.

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