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tiffany lock key ringWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health officials are seeking to clear up confusion about safety rules for dietary supplements by issuing draft guidelines for when manufacturers need to notify regulators about new ingredients. The Food and Drug Administration asked for public comment on the document, which was issued over the weekend. It is intended to help companies comply with a 1994 law regulating new dietary ingredients in tablets, powders, liquids and other supplements. The law requires manufacturers to file a safety notification with the FDA before marketing dietary ingredients that were not on the market when the law passed. But in about 16 years, the FDA received only about 700 notifications of new dietary ingredients. cheap tiffany accessories

The agency believes there are more than 55,000 dietary supplement products. Companies often struggled to determine which products required a notice and to provide the documentation to show products were safe, said Ivan Wasserman of law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Cara Welch, vice president of science and regulatory affairs at the Natural Products Association, said some companies had to submit notifications multiple times. A food safety reform law passed in January included a requirement that gave the FDA six months to issue draft guidelines for when to file a new dietary ingredient notification, or NDI, and what evidence is required to show product safety. tiffany accessories

The draft document answers questions such as whether an ingredient used in food, but not marketed as a dietary ingredient, needs an NDI notification. The answer is "yes" and the guidelines provide a template for filing notices. "Once everyone understands what it means and how to comply with it, you'll see compliance increasing," Wasserman said. "If (the FDA) doesn't see an increased number of NDI submissions... I wouldn't be surprised to see some type of uptick in enforcement." Welch said the Natural Products Association plans to ask the FDA to ease up on some guidelines, such as the documentation to show an ingredient was on the market before 1994. cheap tiffany rings

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it would formally submit an application to the United Nations next year in the hope of redrawing the map of the Arctic, giving itself a bigger share of the resource-rich territory. The plan follows a pledge last week to send troops and weapons to its icy north to guarantee its Arctic interests. The formal application to the United Nations would change the region's borders and allow exploitation of the energy-rich Arctic territory. Russia, Norway, the United States, Canada and Denmark are at odds over how to divide up the Arctic seabed, thought to hold 90 billion barrels of oil and 30 percent of the world's untapped gas resources, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

cheap tiffany rings sale"I hope that next year we will present a formal, scientifically grounded application to the commission of the U.N.," state-run RIA news agency cited Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov as telling a government maritime board. Top energy producer Russia has said it will spend millions of dollars on studies to prove that an underwater mountain range -- rich in oil, natural gas and mineral deposits -- is part of its own Eurasian landmass. Canada and Denmark reject the claim, saying the geographical formation, known as the Lomonosov Ridge, which stretches across the Arctic Sea, is a geographical extension of their own land. tiffany rings for men

Global warming has boosted expectations that the Arctic may provide new mining, fishing and shipping prospects as the ice cap melts. Russia submitted an application to the U.N. to claim the Lomonosov Ridge in 2001, but the document was returned and Moscow was asked to provide more proof for its claim. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said late last month that Russia would finish its mapping of its Arctic shelf by 2013 and submit its application to the U.N. on its claim to the Lomonosov Ridge by 2014. Canada has said it will submit its application on the territory in 2013. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea says that any coastal state can claim undersea territory 200 nautical miles from their shoreline and exploit the natural resources within that zone. tiffany rings for women