The National Animal Supplement Council (NASC) was formed in April 2002 in response to the issue of the lack of an appropriate legal category for Dietary Supplements for Animals and apparent imminent initiatives
proposed by regulatory bodies to remove many of these products from the marketplace.
Opponents said the
proposed rule is
regulatory overreach, and farm organizations voiced concern that the EPA would start checking up on agricultural ditches and seasonal puddles —
bodies of water that are currently not regulated
by the Clean Water Act.
While there can be many reasons why a registrant may refuse to accept a consent resolution to a bona fide, serious complaint, if the investigation committee had first
proposed a non-disciplinary way to deal with that registrant's underlying addiction and address the resulting negative effects, such a rejected proposal can be used to demonstrate that the
regulatory body did not discriminate against that registrant
by then moving on to a disciplinary hearing.