FDA-DSHEA + structure-function claims for prenatal vitamins, what does Magento need to support?

If you sell prenatal vitamins or any supplement in the US, you’re regulated under FDA-DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994). The compliance pieces that touch Magento:

• Supplement Facts panel must appear on every PDP, not optional, FDA-mandated layout. Use a Magento custom-attribute (text or image) per SKU; Hyvä PDP block renders it consistently.
• Structure-function claims (e.g. “supports healthy fetal development”) require the FDA disclaimer footer: “These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.” Render this site-wide on supplement category pages + PDPs.
• No disease claims, you can’t say “prevents pre-eclampsia” or “treats morning sickness.” Implement an editorial-content review checklist before any PDP copy or blog goes live. I usually build a Magento admin warning that flags reserved words in product descriptions.
• Lot + expiry tracking, FDA requires you to recall by lot if there’s an issue. Magento custom attributes for lot_number + expiry_date on simple products + order-level audit log via Magento sales-order custom attributes.
• GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) certification of your manufacturer should be displayed on the “About” or PDP for trust, not legally required to surface, but a conversion lift.

Adobe Commerce B2B / Magento Open Source both support this. Shopify Plus does technically too, but the structure-function claim audit is harder, no native enforcement, and Shopify support has limited supplement-vertical experience compared to Magento.

If you’re shipping internationally: EU EFSA rules are different (stricter), UK FSA rules diverge post-Brexit, Health Canada requires NPN registration. Multi-region store views in Magento let you swap the disclaimer + label per region.