25 Sep 2018 --- The recently posted US FDA draft guidance on the declaration of live microbial quantity in colony forming units (CFUs) in dietary supplements “misses the mark” and could “yield inaccurate product labels,” according to the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the US trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry. Many dietary supplements that are described as “probiotics” contain live microbial ingredients. The FDA guidance concludes that “consumers would benefit from permitting the label of dietary supplement products to accurately represent the quantity of live microbial dietary ingredients in the Supplement Facts label in terms of CFUs.”
