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AHPA launches initiative for weight loss advertising
American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) president, Michael McGuffin, yesterday unveiled a draft framework for voluntary advertising practices for dietary supplements that are marketed for weight...
Metabolife found guilty for ephedra-related injuries
A US Federal Court jury in Birmingham, Alabama, yesterday awarded more than $4 million to four people who suffered strokes and cardiac injuries after taking...
Trans fat labeling - discussion gains ground
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week re-launched the thorny debate on the use of trans fatty acids in food processing, and the labeling...
Traffic lights for sports nutrition
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has published guidelines on the use of sports nutrition supplements for young athletes, dividing products available on the market...
Oregon voters reject GM labeling
Food and biotechnology industries in the US breathed a collective sigh of relief this week as Oregon voters voiced a resounding 'no' to Measure 27,...
Acrylamide: IFT calls for calm
Since Swedish scientists revealed earlier this year that the potential carcinogen acrylamide could be present in high-heated, starchy foods, scientific and government bodies the world...
Tea company told off for misleading health claims
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld two complaints against a leading British tea company for making misleading claims about the health benefits of...
Canada hands out price-fixing fines worth C$4m
The Federal Court of Canada last week fined four leading vitamin companies C$3.875 million (€2.5m) for a conspiracy to fix prices and allocate market shares...
Lonza sues for patent infringements
Lonza Ltd and Lonza Inc, both subsidiaries of Swiss chemicals company Lonza Group, have filed a series of patent infringement lawsuits against supplement companies in...
FDA seizes so-called autism supplements
The US Food and Drug Administration said yesterday it had ordered the seizure of hundreds of bottles of a dietary supplement that the agency said...
Cognis and Kemin resolve feud in new agreement
Cognis Nutrition and Health, the leading health ingredients manufacturer, and Kemin Foods, which also makes speciality health ingredients, announced this week that they have reached...
FSA issues warning against calabash chalk
The UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) is advising people not to eat calabash chalk, a traditional remedy for morning sickness, because samples tested have revealed...
Dietary supplements - irradiation confirmed
The European Commission yesterday released the results of an investigative report into the use and labelling of food irradiation in Europe. Out of more than...
CRN addresses legislators on ephedra
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), one of the trade bodies representing US supplement manufacturers, last week sent a letter to Senator Durbin and other...
Weider bids for DSVP certification
Weider Nutrition International, which manufactures, distributes and sells vitamins and nutritional and sports supplements, is the fourth company to join United States Pharmacopeia's Dietary Supplement...
NNFA responds to anti-DSHEA 'offensive'
The National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA), a US-based trade body, is the latest industry organistion to issue a statement following this week's Senate hearing on...
Solutions to acrylamide?
When scientists from Sweden reported earlier this year that several ordinary foodstuffs could contain high levels of acrylamide - a potentially cancer-causing chemical - governments,...
Novel ingredients reviewed 'down under'
Newly formed agency 'down under', the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), this week invited interested parties and organisations to comment on a number of...
Industry urged to raise quality of EPA/DHA products
The Council for Responsible Nutrition's (CRN) Omega-3 Working Group this week announced it has ratified a voluntary monograph intended to raise the bar for the...
Ephedra council responds to obesity statistics
The Ephedra Education Council (EEC) has responded to yesterday's news that as many as one third of the US population now suffers from obesity with...
WeightWatchers takes supplement company to court
Weight Watchers International, the leading provider of weight-loss services, and its affiliated licensee WeightWatchers.com, are suing a Florida-based supplement company, USA Prescriptions, for placing unauthorised...
Industry urged to 'restore consumer confidence in supplements'
John Cordaro, president and chief executive officer of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the US trade body for supplement manufacturers and suppliers, yesterday called...
FDA cautions Yellow Jackets provider
The US Food and Drug Administration announced this week that it has issued a 'cyber letter' (a letter sent via email to notify a company...
ExpoEast holds seminar on FDA oat health claim
A seminar, entitled 'New Oat Bran Concentrate Enables FDA Heart Health Claim' is to be held at Natural Products Expo East tomorrow 5 October from...
Forum tackles advertising of weight loss products
Following the FTC's recent report on false claims made by weight loss products, the Strategic Research Institute in New York is holding a forum for...
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