2025–2030 Update: CRN Applauds HHS and USDA for Recognizing Role of Dietary Supplements in New Dietary Guidelines
January 2025: CRN submitted oral comments to HHS and USDA for the Jan. 16 public meeting emphasizing the crucial role dietary supplements play in addressing nutrient gaps when recommended intake levels cannot be fully met through food alone.
Decemeber 2024: CRN Encourages Greater Inclusion of Dietary Supplement Recommendations in Dietary Guidelines.
WORK ON PAST GUIDELINES — 2020–2025
CRN and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
See our summary document, CRN Insights: Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020–2025.
On December 29, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services (the Departments) jointly published the 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
CRN has engaged in the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's guidelines development process since 2018 to advocate for inclusion of dietary supplements in recommendations.
CRN provided public and oral comments throughout the Guidelines process, beginning with the selection of review topics, continuing through the deliberations of the Advisory Committee, and culminating in a detailed response to the scientific report. CRN provided the Departments with recommendations, based on the Advisory Committee’s findings, to incorporate into the Dietary Guidelines.
Nutritional considerations for each life stage
“A strength of the 2020 guidelines is the inclusion of an expanded discussion on special nutritional considerations for each life stage.”
—CRN's Haiuyen Nguyen, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society's (RAPS) Regulatory Focus
The newest Dietary Guidelines edition (ninth) is the first to provide recommendations for all life stages, with the addition of infants and toddlers and pregnant and lactating women.
Dietary supplements in the Dietary Guidelines
A fundamental premise of the Dietary Guidelines is that nutritional needs should be met primarily from foods and beverages.
However, the Guidelines recognize that dietary supplements may be useful in providing nutrients that otherwise may be consumed in less than recommended amounts or that are of particular concern for specific population groups.
See our summary document, CRN Insights: Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020–2025, for more information on CRN's recommendations.
Press release
CRN Applauds Support of Dietary Supplement Use in ‘2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans’
—Guidelines recognize supplements help meet nutrient needs unobtainable from food intake; identify groups to benefit from supplements; incorporate CRN recommendations—
Dec. 29, 2020
Past coverage of the Dietary Guidelines in the Daily Supplement
Aug. 18, 2020 | CRN emphasizes importance of supplementation for nutrients of public health concern, key life stages following Dietary Guidelines report
Aug. 3, 2020 | CRN's Nguyen to deliver oral comments at UDSA/HHS pubic meeting on Dietary Guidelines report
July 24, 2020 | DGAC report recognizes role of supplements for pregnant, lactating women
June 25, 2020 | 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee acknowledges role of supplements in supporting health
July 2019 | WATCH: CRN's Hauiyen Nguyen delivers comments to the DGAC