The dietary supplements industry is doing better than many consumer brand industries, despite issues such as NDIs, says the new president of NOW Foods.
Jarrow Rogovin, never a man to mince his words, says it is high time the IPA and other trade groups stepped up to the plate to defend a sector that has been under regulatory siege on both sides of the Atlantic for several years.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has weighed into the debate over the stimulant DMAA (1,3-Dimethylamylamine, also known as methylhexaneamine or MHA), which has garnered more bad press in recent weeks.
Those hoping the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing for a major climb down on its draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs) will draw little comfort from comments made by the agency's supplements chief yesterday.
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The regulatory status and safety of DMAA, a stimulant used in sports and weight loss supplements and reported by some to be a natural constituent of geranium oil, has been challenged again this week.
Not surprisingly, the FDA's draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs) is top of the list for most trade associations when asked what is keeping them awake at night as we head into 2012, but it is not the only thing causing sleepless nights.
While it is possible that the FDA could withdraw its draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs), such a move would be “highly unusual”, according to one leading food law attorney.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) references to safety concerns over supplements spiked with drugs in the context of the debate on new dietary ingredients (NDIs) are “highly disingenuous”, Jarrow Formulas has argued.
Requiring supplement manufacturers to submit new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications will force them to seek confidential information from suppliers in order to file submissions, according to law firm Amin Talati.
The only probiotics that should be subject to new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications should be “new probiotics derived from GM engineering which have little to no history of safe use”, according to the International Probiotics Association (IPA).
Botanical extracts that have been on the market for years should not automatically be treated as new dietary ingredients (NDIs) just because extraction methods have changed, according to the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).
The five main trade associations for the dietary supplements industry are united in their calls for a ‘timely’ and ‘substantial overhaul’ of the draft guidance, according to a joint statement.
The FDA’s NDI draft guidance sets up a ‘substantial and unprecedented premarket regulatory process’ that is ‘tantamount to obtaining FDA approval for dietary supplement products’, says Atrium Innovations.
The new dietary ingredient (NDI) draft guidance, as it stands, will not help achieve the objective of full and efficient implementation and enforcement of DSHEA, says the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA), as it adds its voice to calls for FDA to...
Health advocacy group Citizens for Health (CFH) has delivered a petition to the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Food and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signed by more than 12,000 Americans, calling on the FDA to withdraw its draft guidance...
Health advocacy group the Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA) is exploring all available “legal remedies” should the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fail to ditch or substantially revise its draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs).
The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) has urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to rethink its approach to live microbial dietary ingredients.
The Food and Drug Administration should tear up its “hugely flawed” draft guidance on new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications and go back to the drawing board, according to the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA).
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should recognize the existing industry list of ‘grandfathered’ or ‘old’ dietary ingredients (ODIs) sold in the US pre-1994 – but work with an expert panel to clarify its contents, according to the American Botanical...
There will be differences in emphasis in comments submitted to the FDA on its draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs), but the overall message from the supplements industry is clear - and consistent - says the Council for Responsible Nutrition...
While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will need time to process the expected tidal wave of comments on its draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs), the supplements industry should not be left in regulatory “limbo” for long, trade associations...
Jarrow Formulas is still waiting for a “substantive response” from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted more than two months ago about the FDA’s draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDIs).
A proposed change to the date defining ‘grandfathered’ dietary ingredients to 2007 shows the industry there are options to the NDI issue, but it should not distract attention from FDA and the upcoming deadline for NDI comment submissions, say leading...
The dietary supplements industry should keep an eye on GMP compliance, and not be distracted by discussions over NDIs, because enforcement may move beyond handing out paper if warning letters are ignored, said FDA’s Dr Daniel Fabricant.
The functionality of the New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) guidance can be improved in only six steps, says direct selling giant Herbalife in its comments to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The timing of the release of the new dietary ingredient (NDI) draft guidance is “curious” given pressing economic/resource issues and “far more serious issues that FDA should be looking at”, says the chief executive of BI Nutraceuticals.
Attempts by health advocacy group the Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA) to drum up ‘grassroots’ support for its campaign against the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA’s) New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) draft guidance have prompted an unprecedented...
NutraIngredients-USA’s readership is torn over the issue of whether the dietary supplements industry needs a new trade association, according to results of a recent poll.
Dietary supplement companies should work with the existing trade associations to properly address the NDI draft guidance, says the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), as a new dietary supplement trade association is proposed.
The issue of ‘unreasonable risk’ in the NDI draft guidance is not about efficacy, despite what some industry personalities have said, the director of the FDA’s Office of Dietary Supplement Programs tells NutraIngredients-USA.
The dietary supplements industry may have a new trade association, as Jarrow Rogovin, founder and president of Jarrow Formulas, proposes the creation of the DSMMA.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is “willfully and grossly misinterpreting the law” by making new dietary ingredient (NDI) submissions product-specific rather than ingredient-specific, advocacy group Citizens for Health has argued.
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has told the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that FDA has ‘grossly underestimated the NDI notification process’ burden’.
California-based Jarrow Formulas has submitted a 128-item Freedom of Information Request to the US FDA with questions it deems ‘vital’ to any comments it seeks to file in response to the New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) draft guidance.
The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a 60-day extension to the comment period for the New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) draft guidance, NutraIngredients-USA.com can reveal.
The request from the main trade associations to extend the period for comments on the NDI draft guidance is ‘reasonable’ and the result of ‘carefully weighing the matter at hand’.
California’s Jarrow Formulas has called for an extension of the comment period on the FDA’s NDI draft guidance to one year, claiming that the current 90 day comment window is ‘insufficient’.
The chief architect of the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) does not believe the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs) is consistent with the legislation he co-authored, his office...
The FDA will be “laughed out of court” if it tries to defend enforcement action against supplement manufacturers based on the argument that new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications should apply to finished products, not ingredients, one industry leader...
A range of options – “judicial, administrative and Congressional” – is being explored by the dietary supplements industry should the FDA prove unwilling to make substantial changes to its controversial draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs).
The New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) draft guidance represents ‘rulemaking by guidance’ and should immediately be ‘withdrawn and revised’, says New York-based law firm Ullman, Shapiro & Ullman, LLP.
If sufficient pressure is exerted on key members of Congress, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that the FDA might suspend its draft guidance on NDIs (new dietary ingredients) or even withdraw it altogether, according to food law attorney Jonathan...
If stakeholders are granted more time to respond to the FDA’s draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs), it should be possible to reach a compromise that will satisfy regulators without devastating the dietary supplements industry, trade associations...
There is “no logic” to the FDA’s insistence that NDI (new dietary ingredient) notifications are applicable only to the specific manufacturer that submits them, according to one leading food law attorney.
The argument that the FDA has overstepped its legal remit in its draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs) is gaining ground, with one food law expert claiming the FDA is “trying to dismantle” the legislation it is supposed to be clarifying.
Many dietary ingredients used in supplements today bear little resemblance to ingredients that were assumed to be ‘grandfathered in’ post the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act, making a fresh safety analysis eminently reasonable if extraction...
The American Botanical Council (ABC) has weighed into the debate over the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) draft guidance document on new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications.
