This bill creates a separate set of rules for homeopathic drug products. It adds definitions to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for "homeopathic drug product" and "homeopathic ingredient." It inserts a new section (503E) that makes most other chapter V provisions inapplicable to homeopathic products except where this new section and certain sections (501, 502, 510) apply. The bill says homeopathic products are subject to safety and quality standards in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States or other officially recognized homeopathic standards, or to specific good manufacturing practice regulations if no homeopathic standard applies. Finished products are exempt from certain laboratory identity and strength tests but must meet other final specifications and may require intermediate testing for risky starting materials. The bill sets labeling rules for retail homeopathic products (including permitted sources to support indications and a required statement that indications have not been evaluated by the FDA), limits other federal and state substantiation requirements when labeling complies with the bill, and says the FDA may not require premarket approval of homeopathic products. It requires the FDA to establish a Homeopathic Drug Product Advisory Committee with specified membership and to make inspectors familiar with the new requirements. The bill also cancels a named 2022 FDA guidance about homeopathic drug products.
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The bill states its purpose is to ensure continued consumer access to homeopathic drug products that meet safety, quality, and transparency needs. The "sense of Congress" in the bill says homeopathic medicines are important to millions of Americans and that a distinct statutory pathway will best ensure access while allowing action against products that are adulterated or misbranded.
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