Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994
Long title	A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish standards with respect to dietary supplements, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)	DSHEA
Enacted by	the 103rd United States Congress
Effective	October 25, 1994
Citations
Public law	103-417
Statutes at Large	108 Stat. 4325
Codification
Acts amended	Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
Titles amended	21 U.S.C.: Food and Drugs
U.S.C. sections amended	21 U.S.C. ch. 9, subch. I § 301; 21 U.S.C. ch. 9, subch. II § 321; 21 U.S.C. ch. 9, subch. IV §§ 343, 343-2, 350b; 42 U.S.C. ch. 6A, subch. III § 287c-11;
Legislative history
	Introduced in the Senate as S. 784 by Orrin G. Hatch (R–UT) on April 7, 1993; Committee consideration by Committee on Labor and Human Resources and Committee on Energy and Commerce; Passed the Senate on August 13, 1994 (pass voice vote); Passed the House on October 7, 1994 (pass without objection); Senate agreed to amendment on October 8, 1994 (agreed voice vote); Signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 25, 1994;

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 ("DSHEA"), is a 1994 statute of United States Federal legislation which defines and regulates dietary supplements. Under the act, supplements are regulated by the FDA for Good Manufacturing Practices under 21 CFR Part 111.

The act was intended to exempt the dietary and herbal supplement industry from most FDA drug regulations, allowing them to be sold and marketed without scientific backing for their health and medical claims. Supplement makers "routinely and systematically" bypass the DSHEA NDI process by using the generally recognized as safe (GRAS) process: first adding new compounds to a food and self-certifying, then adding them to supplements.