[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 10, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3013-3014]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00316]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Notice of Availability of the Office of Dietary Supplements 
Strategic Plan for 2017-2021

SUMMARY: The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National 
Institutes of Health (NIH) has completed a strategic planning process 
resulting in the development of the ODS Strategic Plan for 2017-2021, 
entitled Strengthening Knowledge and Understanding of Dietary 
Supplements. The strategic plan is available in pdf format on the ODS 
Web site: https://

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ods.od.nih.gov/About/StrategicPlan2017-2021.aspx

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Office of Dietary Supplements, 
National Institutes of Health, 6100 Executive Boulevard, Room 3B01, 
Bethesda, MD 20892-7517, Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ODS Strategic Plan for 2017-2021 
presents a refreshed set of goals, strategies, and activities that ODS 
plans for the next 5 years. It also provides a review of ODS activities 
and accomplishments between 2010 and 2016, and includes examples of ODS 
collaborative projects and programs and summaries of its extramural 
investments. It was shaped by input, comments, and advice from ODS's 
stakeholder communities throughout the federal government, academia, 
the dietary supplement industry, consumer advocacy and education 
groups, and interested consumers.

Background

    The mission of ODS is to support, conduct, and coordinate 
scientific research and provide intellectual leadership for the purpose 
of strengthening the knowledge and understanding of dietary supplements 
to foster an enhanced quality of life and health for the U.S. 
population. ODS was established in the Office of the Director, NIH, in 
1995 as a major provision of the Dietary Supplement Health and 
Education Act of 1994.

    Dated: January 3, 2017.
Lawrence A. Tabak,
Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health.
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