Number: RL30750
Title: Dietary Supplements: Ephedra
Authors: Donna V. Porter, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: In the 108th Congress, several resolutions were introduced that would have expressed the sense of the Congress either that all major sports organizations should ban the use of ephedra or that the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services should remove ephedra from the market. Several bills introduced would have established labeling and advertising rules for supplements containing ephedra, prohibited sales to minors, required premarket approval and post-market reporting of serious adverse effects. These bills received no further action. No bills concerned with supplements containing ephedra were introduced in the 109th Congress.
Pages: 19
Date: January 23, 2007