FDA publishes rule to incorporate AHPA's herbs of Commerce in herb labeling

摘要

On August 28, 2003, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a direct final rule in the Federal Register to amend its regulations on labeling of botanical ingredients in dietary supplements by incorporating the current edition of AHPA'sHerbs of Commerce. The new rule becomes effective on January 1, 2006, consistent with FDA's published policy on uniform effective dates for food labeling regulations. FDA also updated its reference sources to include the current edition of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (St. Louis Code) 2000 (ICBN). The ICBN is accepted by the worldwide taxonomic community as "the rules that govern scientific naming in botany" as determined and "revised at Nomenclature Section meetings at successive International Botanical Congresses. The present edition of the International code of botanical nomenclature emhodies the decisions of the XVI International Botanical Congress held in St Louis in 1999 and supersedes the Tokyo Code, published six years [earlier, in 1994,] subsequent to the XV International Botanical Congress in Yokohama."