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The label and the ingredient were treated as one question

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A correct label does not make an ingredient lawful. And a lawful ingredient does not make a label correct.

The label was assumed to settle the category

Element (C) requires that the product be labeled as a dietary supplement, and satisfying it is necessary rather than sufficient. The ingredient gate is a separate test.

Or the ingredient was assumed to settle the label

An ingredient with a long American history still has to meet all three elements of the definition, two of which are about words on the package.

Element (B) was failed in the marketing copy

Representing a product for use as a conventional food, or as a sole item of a meal or the diet, takes it outside the definition however the label panel is set.

New was read as recently discovered

It means not marketed in the United States before October 15, 1994. An ancient plant can be a new dietary ingredient and a familiar-sounding one can be too.

The form was ignored inside the date

Marketed before the date in what form is part of the question, and the first route turns on a form in which the food has not been chemically altered.

An extract was assumed to inherit the plant's history

Which is exactly the determination the chemical alteration language asks about, and it is not ours to make.

The word "only" was skipped

The food supply route requires a supplement containing only such ingredients. One ingredient outside the description closes that route for the whole product.

The 75 days were not in the project plan

They run before introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce, which is before the product ships. Containers and labels have lead times that sit inside the same window.

A container page was read as an all-clear

It is not, and this property is written so that it cannot be. We sell jars and make no statement about any of the six botanicals named here.

And state law was left out

Several of these are treated differently from state to state. A federal reading is half an answer at most.

References

21 U.S.C. 321(ff)(2), part of the definition of dietary supplement, requiring a product that "(A)(i) is intended for ingestion in a form described in section 350(c)(1)(B)(i) of this title; or (ii) complies with section 350(c)(1)(B)(ii) of this title; (B) is not represented for use as a conventional food or as a sole item of a meal or the diet; and (C) is labeled as a dietary supplement". The concluding text of (ff) reads "Except for purposes of paragraph (g) and section 350f of this title, a dietary supplement shall be deemed to be a food within the meaning of this chapter." law.cornell.edu
21 U.S.C. 350b(d): "For purposes of this section, the term 'new dietary ingredient' means a dietary ingredient that was not marketed in the United States before October 15, 1994". law.cornell.edu
21 U.S.C. 350b(a): "A dietary supplement which contains a new dietary ingredient shall be deemed adulterated under section 342(f) of this title unless it meets one of the following requirements". The first route, (a)(1), is that the supplement "contains only dietary ingredients which have been present in the food supply as an article used for food in a form in which the food has not been chemically altered". The second, (a)(2), requires a history of use or other evidence of safety furnished to the Secretary "at least 75 days before being introduced or delivered for introduction into interstate commerce". law.cornell.edu
Nothing in this property states whether any particular botanical is a lawful dietary ingredient, a new dietary ingredient, adulterated or saleable. Those are per-ingredient determinations, federal agencies have taken positions on several of the botanicals named here which this property does not summarize or characterize, and state law differs from federal law and from state to state. Dosage, preparation and effect are also outside it.
Written from 21 U.S.C. 321(ff) and 21 U.S.C. 350b and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Nothing here says whether any particular botanical is a lawful dietary ingredient, a new dietary ingredient or saleable: those are per-ingredient determinations, federal agencies have taken positions on several of these which this property does not summarize, and state law differs. Availability and stock figures are a single snapshot rather than a trend. The shipping weight field on this shelf reaches 2,002 lb, which is a case weight in a unit field, so do not rely on it.