Dietary supplement trade associations headed to Boston this week to provide testimony in opposition to bills that would restrict access to weight loss and sports nutrition dietary supplements for consumers under the age of eighteen.
FDA’s massive reorganization to create a proposed unified Human Foods Program under one leader who will report directly to the agency’s commissioner may not be finalized until next June, but the program’s first Deputy Commissioner James ‘Jim’ Jones isn’t...
With expert speakers confirmed from GNC Live Well, Wild.AI, TYM Performance, AHPA, SPINS, Thorne HealthTech, Move Nutriton Network, Lifenome, the University of Ghent, Dublin City University, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and more, the upcoming...
By Steve Mister, President & CEO, Council for Responsible Nutrition
In this guest article, Steve Mister, President & CEO, Council for Responsible Nutrition, discusses how “surgical amendments to the existing drug preclusion provision” can balance the interests of drugs and supplements and allow innovation in both...
After decades of navigating the complexities of regulatory compliance, Emma Hunt and Kathryn Szymonowicz took their knowledge and used it to launch Rubicon Bridge, a software that helps other businesses to overcome regulatory challenges and achieve international...
We’ve seen a number of state bills prop up, especially out of California. In fact, at this time last year we were talking about AB 2098, a contentious bill that would have disciplined physicians for spreading misinformation about COVID. That bill was...
For the second time in two months, the US Food and Drug Administration has declined to respond to a Citizen Petition, citing “competing agency priorities”.
Recent statements and conversations with senior officials at the FDA have revealed “an apparent knowledge gap within the upper echelons of the Agency” regarding the regulation of dietary supplements, says Steve Mister, President and CEO of the Council...
Clean living expert Lindsay Dahl has been working at the forefront of environmental health campaigns to eliminate toxic chemicals in consumer products through policy and market shifts since 2004.
US Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) has reintroduced legislation to amend the tax code to allow dietary supplements to be purchased with Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA), and Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRA).
While uncertainty continues around NMN, FDA should make it clear to commercial platforms that they haven’t made a final decision on the ingredient and that it should be still available to consumers, says Daniel Fabricant, President & CEO of the Natural...
The new law, signed by Governor Kathy Hochul this week, restricts the sale of weight loss and sports nutrition dietary supplements to New York consumers under the age of eighteen.
The UK Government has accepted a recommended legal THC limit for CBD products in an ‘historic’ move that aims to bring some legal clarity to the industry, but an expert warns there are muddy waters yet to be cleared.
California’s Food Safety Act (AB 418) bans the inclusion of four food additives—propyl paraben, brominated vegetable oil, Red Dye No. 3 and potassium bromate—in food and beverages, a landmark state-wide law highlighting the potentially widening gap between...
Proposed and implemented changes to how Health Canada regulates its natural health product (NHP) sector are ‘throwing out a lot of progress’, experts tell NutraIngredients-USA.
CBD industry stakeholders should not accept the UK Food Standards Agency’s recent downgrading of the CBD Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI), with recent studies advancing our understanding and potentially opening up opportunities to push for higher levels.
Holland & Barrett has temporarily removed 31 CBD products from shelves after new guidance from UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) which slashed recommended daily recommendations, leading industry to pull together to fight for survival.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the California Food Safety Act on Oct. 7, 2023. The statewide legislation, the first of its kind in the US, “will prohibit any food product manufactured, sold, delivered, distributed, held or offered for sale in...
On Wednesday Steve Mister, President & CEO of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), had a fireside chat with FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf at CRN’s annual conference.
A federal judge has denied Nordic Naturals’ motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit that alleges the company deceived consumers because its brand name suggests that there are no synthetic ingredients in its supplements.
The Council for Responsible Nutrition will request an additional conversation with the Federal Trade Commission this month to follow up on a citizen petition it filed in September.
Brad Snyder of Marlton, NJ was arrested Tuesday and charged with counterfeiting Pure Encapsulations and Nature M.D. branded products and selling them online.
Generative AI, conversational AI, machine learning, AI-driven search engines and AI chatbots…it seems like we can’t go anywhere or do anything without hearing about AI.
Twenty-first century medicine needs to be preventive and personalised with an interdisciplinary approach to allow research to impact policy and help the public to age healthily.
Cargill, one of the world’s largest cocoa suppliers, has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay 600,000 reais ($120,185) as indemnity for allegedly buying cocoa from farms where child labour or forced work has been identified.
An upcoming webinar will explore the booming category of children’s supplements, featuring experts from SPINS, SmartyPants Vitamins, and Amin Talati Wasserman.
CBD and/or THC users between 18-68 years old who avidly participate and are trained in aerobic and resistance exercise report the compounds aid in their physical recuperation, a new survey determined.
Despite language in the 2022 Health Products Compliance Guidance around the need for clinical trials to substantiate health claims, the US Federal Trade Commission has stated that not all claims require that level of substantiation.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Europe is calling on consumers to use its newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) tool in order to clampdown and regulate the promotion of harmful products targeted at children.
The United Natural Products Alliance is applauding the move, saying the repeal is a very significant and positive development, particularly for functional and alternative medicine physicians in the state.
Earlier this year, the FTC sought to flex its penalty offense authority by issuing compliance reminders to advertisers–but trades say that ‘friendly reminder’ was unlawful.
As the Council for Responsible Nutrition celebrates its 50th anniversary, NutraIngredients-USA caught up with Steve Mister, CRN President and CEO, to hear about the association’s history, its commitment to its founding values, and how it is gearing up...
Regulatory bottlenecks are threatening to hinder CBD innovation on both sides of the Atlantic, the former professional road racing cyclist Floyd Landis tells FoodNavigator.
The National Institutes of Health kicked off its annual Office of Dietary Supplements Seminar Series this week with a presentation by Dr. Cara Welch on how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the dietary supplement marketplace.
A newly published 'Horizon scan' report from GOED (The Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s) outlines the plethora of environmental, political and social pressures causing industry to innovate to ensure a sustainable future.
California legislators this week passed a closely-watched and controversial bill that if signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom would ban in the state the sale of foods and beverages including four popular food additives but not – notably – the colorant titanium...
Less than a year ago, FDA told FoodNavigator-USA that it considers TiO2 to be safe, citing available studies that do not demonstrate safety concerns connected to the use of TiO2 as a color additive.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been unable to reach a decision on the requests made in a Citizen Petition about NMN due to “competing agency priorities”, a response that threatens the NMN sector, says Daniel Fabricant, PhD.
As part of a new campaign to showcase responsible and rigorous practices in the dietary supplement industry, Gaia Herbs has extended an open invitation to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to inspect its operations.
Two of the dietary supplement industry’s most vocal critics in Congress – Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) – have written to the FDA to express concerns about proposed changes to the Office of Dietary Supplement Programs (ODSP).
Helaina is pioneering modern nutrition with breast milk proteins developed outside the body via precision fermentation. The biotech company is writing the safety playbook on novel bioactive proteins and to help with this, Helaina hired a nutritional sciences...
The US Food and Drug Administration has selected James “Jim” Jones as the first Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods to lead the Agency’s proposed unified Human Foods Program (HFP).
A new paper in JAMA Cardiology that criticizes the use of structure/function claims on omega-3 dietary supplements is “fraught with inaccuracies and never should have made it through the peer review process”, says the Global Organization for EPA and DHA...
The recent congressional hearing about CBD and subsequent ‘historic’ bicameral Request for Information (RFI) shows that hemp-derived CBD for use in dietary supplements has finally got the attention of Congress, said cbdMD’s CSO.
