[1] The law gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to require nutrition labeling of most foods regulated by the Agency; and to require that all nutrient content claims (for example, 'high fiber', 'low fat', etc.)

[2] Effective Jan. 1, 2006, the Nutrition Facts Labels on packaged food products are required by the FDA to list how many grams of trans fatty acid (trans fat) are contained within one serving of the product.

The senator said he "entered the controversy after hearing from constituents in his home state, including both consumers and makers of dietary supplements".

Hatch's bill did not get very far, but it encouraged Congress to pass the Dietary Supplement Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-571), which blocked the FDA from applying its forthcoming labeling rules for conventional foods to dietary supplements for another year, until the end of 1993.

[3][4] The Nutritional Health Alliance, an industry lobby group,[5] claimed credit for getting the Dietary Supplement Act of 1992 passed.