Food Labeling: Ingredient Labeling of Dietary Supplements That Contain Botanicals; Withdrawal

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published in the Federal Register of August 28, 2003 (68 FR 51693), a direct final rule to amend the regulation on the designation of ingredients in dietary supplements by incorporating by reference the most recent editions of the references Herbs of Commerce and the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. The direct final rule also would have added a sentence to this regulation codifying the requirements contained in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-171) that restrict the use of the term "ginseng" as a common or usual name to botanicals within the genus "Panax" and limiting the use of the term "ginseng" to labeling and advertising of herbs or herbal ingredients classified within the genus "Panax." FDA is withdrawing the direct final rule because the agency received significant adverse comment.