{"id":859101,"date":"2026-09-24T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859101\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:34:10","slug":"new-jersey-legislator-introduces-restrictive-supplements-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859101\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey legislator introduces restrictive supplements bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

NJ Assembly Bill A5487<\/a> was introduced by Shanique Speight on September 14. Speight was co-sponsor on a similar unsuccessful bill that was introduced a couple of years ago. That older bill did pass the Assembly in New Jersey, but did not advance through the state\u2019s senate. <\/p>\n

The bill targets \u201ccertain diet pills and dietary supplements for weight loss or muscle building to persons under 18 years of age under certain circumstances.\u201d It requires age verification using government-issued identification for all in-person and virtual sales and allows for fines of not more than $750. <\/p>\n

The bill also targets specific ingredients, including creatine, green tea extract, raspberry ketone, garcinia cambogia, or green coffee bean extract.<\/p>\n

Kyle Turk, vice president of government affairs at the Natural Products Association (NPA), said he does not anticipate any movement on the bill during the current legislative session but described A5487 as a \u201cholding bill\u201d that will carry over to the next year. <\/p>\n

While Turk doesn\u2019t anticipate a public hearing on the bill any time soon, he said NPA will be visiting the NJ state capitol in Trenton to reinforce with legislators that this is a non-starter for the dietary supplements industry. <\/p>\n

STRIPED<\/p>\n

The Rhode Island bill is the latest in a series of state proposals seeking to restrict youth access to certain dietary supplements, particularly those marketed for weight loss or muscle building.<\/p>\n

Similar measures have been introduced in multiple states in recent years, most recently in states like Hawaii<\/a>, Alaska<\/a>, California<\/a>, Rhode Island<\/a>, and Connecticut<\/a>, that would place age restrictions on certain supplement purchases and retail access.<\/p>\n

Many of these bills reportedly originate from the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED), which launched as a \u201cpublic health incubator\u201d based at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n

Proponents of the restrictions cite a purported link between the use of such products and the worsening of eating disorders, even though a review of the scientific literature<\/a>, funded by the Council for Responsible Nutrition, concluded that the \u201cevidence to date does not support a causative role for dietary supplements in eating disorders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe use of dietary supplements for weight management in both male and female teens appears to be declining, and the objective of weight loss is not observed as a common motivation for the use of dietary supplements among this age group,\u201d wrote Susan Hewlings, PhD, RD, the author of the review, which was published in the journal Nutrients.<\/p>\n

Federal preemption efforts<\/p>\n

In February, Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY) introduced H.R. 7366<\/a> in the U.S. House of Representatives to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify that the States cannot establish or continue any dietary supplement-related requirements that are different from the federal law.<\/p>\n

The bill specifically aims to clarify federal preemption so that supplements meeting FDA requirements are not subjected to a patchwork of laws at the state level. To date, Langworthy\u2019s home state of New York is the only place to pass a restrictive bill. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen states override science-based FDA determination, you end up in a situation where the same product is treated as safe in one state, but suspect in another state, just by crossing a state line,\u201d stated Langworthy during an April 29 hearing titled Healthier America: Legislative Proposals on the Regulation and Oversight of Food. \u201cThat\u2019s regulation for regulation\u2019s sake; it doesn\u2019t make any sense for businesses or the people that they serve. That\u2019s why I have introduced H.R. 7366, the Dietary Supplement Regulatory Uniformity Act, to reaffirm that we should have one clear, science-based national standard\u2014not a patchwork of conflicting state rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite vocal support from industry stakeholders, H.R. 7366<\/a> is unlikely to advance during this Congress, said Dr. Daniel Fabricant, NPA\u2019s president and CEO. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really important to keep pushing back on these state bills,\u201d said Dr. Fabricant. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen efforts in twenty-plus states now. What is going to take for industry to stand up to these?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NJ Assembly Bill A5487 was introduced by Shanique Speight on September 14. Speight was co-sponsor on a similar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[23,183050,222908,29962,26096,46584,362656,37435,17590,690,205230,25028,10533,23908,97,2020,20568,22617,35165,6377,103912,269,11748,3238,362657,362658,13109,91138,362659,22620,12853,21206,333],"class_list":["post-859101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-america","tag-architectural","tag-assembly","tag-attraction","tag-building","tag-capital","tag-capital-of-rhode-island","tag-capitol","tag-center","tag-culture","tag-dome","tag-downtown","tag-editorial","tag-front","tag-health","tag-historic","tag-historical","tag-landmark","tag-legislature","tag-national","tag-neoclassical","tag-nutrition","tag-providence","tag-public","tag-rhode-island-general-assembly","tag-rhode-island-state-house","tag-state","tag-state-house","tag-statehouse","tag-states","tag-tour","tag-united","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}