Section 16-21.4-1 - Performance-enhancing dietary supplements(a) For the purposes of this chapter "performance-enhancing dietary supplement" means a dietary supplement designed or marketed to improve athletic performance or physical development by promoting body or muscle growth, stimulating or altering the cardiovascular system or the central nervous system, altering the perception of pain, or otherwise enhancing athletic performance or physical development above levels that would be anticipated under normal conditions with appropriate nourishment;(b) "Performance-enhancing dietary supplement" does not include a dietary supplement in which the only ingredients consist of one or more of the following:(1) Vitamins or minerals.(2) Authorized food additives, color additives, ingredients authorized by prior sanction, or those classified as generally recognized as safe for use in foods as defined in the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. Sec. 301 et seq.), and accompanying federal regulations, except for caffeine in excess of 200 milligrams per serving, if these ingredients are used in a dietary supplement at the levels, and for the purposes, for which they may be used in foods.R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-21.4-1
P.L. 2005, ch. 244, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 246, § 1.