The term ‘weight management supplement’ may conjure associations with the passé and unpopular ‘weight loss pill,’ despite the diversity of delivery formats and functions the category offers consumers.
A bill that seeks to restrict the ability to provide nutrition advice to only a small group of accredited professionals has advanced farther than it ever has in the New York State legislature.
The new name of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program better identifies it, but doesn’t change the underlying principles on which is it grounded.
By Michael McGuffin, president, American Herbal Products Association
The herbal industry continued to evolve in 2017 to meet the steadily increasing demand for high quality botanical ingredients in an array of consumer goods from teas and health supplements to personal care products and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Three members of Congress have sent a letter to the US Food and Drug Administration requesting specifics on how enforcement funds are allocated. The three lawmakers are among those the Council for Responsible Nutrition has worked closely with on regulatory...
A bill now before the US House of Representatives that seeks to clarify the boundaries of Multi Level Marketing operations is imperfect but better than the status quo, said an attorney familiar with the sector.
A recent commentary published by three experts in the dietary supplement industry cautions against drawing big conclusions from aggregate data from poison control centers.
The funding arm of the Council for Responsible Nutrition has renewed its support for the NAD dietary supplement advertising review program for an additional three years.
Will compiling an official list of Old Dietary Ingredients ultimately be worth the effort? Maybe, but the resulting list must be expansive rather than restrictive to be of much use, most stakeholders agree.
A new study conducted by anti doping researchers has found that products containing SARMs are readily available online and that many of the products contain additional undeclared, unapproved drugs.
FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb has warned about the ‘deadly risks’ associated with kratom and has said the agency “must use its authority to protect the public from addictive substances like kratom.”
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a consumer warning against supplement-like body building products that contain SARMs, or selective androgen receptor modulators.
A Massachusetts legislator’s attempt to restrict the sale of some dietary supplements seems doomed to fail in its latest iteration, but continued vigilance is needed, according to the head of the Natural Products Association.
Members of the Council for Responsible Nutrition must demonstrate a “unified commitment” to the Supplement OWL, with the organization’s Board of Directors indicating that all members must be substantially compliant by the beginning of the year.
A new education program by GOED will seek to target primary care practitioners, with the focus on educating the people most likely to influence consumer purchases of the omega-3s.
The American Botanical Council has announced a plan to create an industry-accepted practice to ensure that rejected raw materials don’t find their way back into the market and onto the shelf in the form of finished goods.
A recent article in The Economist magazine bashing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as “state sponsored quackery” is an example of the arrogance of the Western point of view on science and medicine, a view which denies the roots of all medical knowledge,...
Young Living, a multilevel marketing company that sells products based on essential oils, has entered into a plea agreement for illegally trading in oils from endangered species. The company will pay fines totaling $760,000, the Justice Department announced...
The American Botanical Council is continuing to shed light on the issue of the adulteration of botanical ingredients by making available a book chapter on the adulteration of essential oils. This comes on the heels of the publication of an ABC bulletin...
A new market survey from consultancy Pure Branding claims that more and more doctors are incorporating concepts of integrative medicine into their practices, a development that can be seen as good news for the supplement industry.
Transparency is becoming more of a watchword for the industry, says Mark Blumenthal of the American Botanical Council. Whether it's a word to live by or to hide behind is the question, he said.
A commentary from a doctor associated with the pharmaceutical giant Merck trots outs some tired criticisms of vitamins and other supplements that are mixed in with generally sound advice, an expert from CRN says.
Online training of physicians in integrative medicine could help boost the number of family doctors educated in the value of dietary supplements in health and prevention.
There were no links found between dietary calcium intake and rates of bone loss in men, according to a recent study published in the British Journal of Nutrition. Experts who commented on the study independently found the study flawed.
A study published last week in the journal Nutrients adds another brick in the wall backing the ability of multivitamins to fill in nutrient shortfalls. While this notion is taken for granted among experts in the dietary supplement field, it is still...
Major curcuminoids supplier Sabinsa has taken a step it hopes will help protect the entire category by becoming the founding board member of the Global Curcumin Association.
Despite a high profile legal wrangle with FTC and with the New York Attorney General, memory support supplement manufacturer Quincy Bioscience has enough revenue in the tank to afford a high-dollar sponsorship of a NASCAR racing team.
The Dietary Supplement Caucus, an ever-fluid assembly of lawmakers who support the industry, has a new leader in the form Rep. Mia Love, R-UT, who will take over the co-chair position from former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who has retired.
An article published last week in Cochrane Reviews that concludes lutein and zeaxanthin have little effect on the progression of AMD drew a strong reaction from researchers and suppliers in the field.
When looking at a potentially damaging series of journal articles about supplements being penned by a professor at Clemson University, an official at CRN prefers to look at the common ground of a desire for a better, more transparent industry.
Thirteen years have passed since the FDA banned ephedrine. Ever since, bitter orange extract, which has an active compound structurally similar to ephedrine (p-synephrine) has been under scrutiny. A new scientific review looks at the most recent clinical...
The American Medical Association (AMA) supports an increase of choline in all prenatal vitamins to 450 mg/day, according to a resolution passed by delegates at the 2017 AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago earlier this month.
Botanical supplements come and go in public consciousness, receiving a spike of attention after a celebrity endorsement, and then fading away for one reason or another.
The Supplement OWL is “an important and necessary first step towards transparency”, said Loren Israelsen, president of the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) following his organization’s endorsement of the initiative.
Building a sports nutrition brand aimed at women ought to include more than just choosing which shade of pink to use on the label. But that is still all too often the case, one expert says.
The Federal Trade Commission has sent 90 letters to brand holders and endorsers emphasizing the requirement to be forthright about business relationships on social media.
Herbalife has shaken off the lingering effects of a big-ticket settlement with the Federal Trade Commission with a relatively solid quarterly results statement that was welcomed by stock traders.
Bayer has had what some observers called a “quick win” in the dismissal of a class action lawsuit filed in New Jersey over claims on its Phillips Colon Health probiotic supplement.
The news that Rep. Jason Chaffetz plans not to seek re-election is a reminder that maintaining friends for the dietary supplements industry within the halls of power is an ongoing and never ending process.
Industry experts maintain that the marine sources of omega-3s continue to be well managed and supplies remain adequate, despite questions that are raised periodically by some observers. But whatever direction the sustainability tug of war might take,...
