TAKE ACTION: Under the FDA’s new rules, Supplement Fact labels would ONLY be allowed to list the term “folic acid” as an ingredient; the word “folate” would NOT be permitted.-- Oddly, this contradicts another FDA regulation that allows supplement producers to list sourcing ingredients next to nutrient names—for example, “Folic Acid (Folate).” Is the FDA attempting to overrule this old regulation via the new labeling rules? This wouldn’t be a small labeling tweak: banning folate from the label is a sneaky way of banning it in the bottle, as it would be completely inaccurate and misleading to refer to dietary folates like folinic acid (5-FTHF), calcium methylfolate, various tetrahydrofolates, and other “whole food” folates as synthetic folic acid.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 22:13:14 +0000
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