The sports nutrition category has undergone significant change in recent years, as many new non-core consumers are seeking out the products. This has coincided with increased regulatory scrutiny and calls for greater transparency, says the COO of ProSupps.
The kratom market has suffered another black eye with the release of a warning letter from FDA citing a marketer for material that was contaminated with salmonella. The letter also illustrates the ongoing regulatory ferment surrounding the botanical.
The prevalence of Bacillus cereus in infant and follow-up formula in China may warrant further research so criteria can be developed for risk assessment and quality control, say Chinese researchers.
China will not implement a new set of cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) regulations in January next year and will instead continue with existing regulations.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent warning letters to two companies selling products marketed as ‘dietary supplements’ and labeled as containing tianeptine, which is being illegally claimed to treat opioid use disorder (OUD), pain, and anxiety.
From the 2018 midterm election results to the rise of CBD, Michael McGuffin, president of the American Herbal Products Association, talks about how the association is approaching the most recent changes in the supplements space.
By Elena Nekrasov, PhD, Senior Regulatory Scientist, Access Business Group, Amway
Getting your regulatory affairs department or a consultant involved early in the development process can save multiple headaches later when bringing new products to market. The global regulatory goalposts are moving all the time, and R&D teams need...
Royal DSM has reopened its Jiangshan vitamin C plant after extensive upgrades, and has signed an agreement with local authorities to transition from coal to natural gas power within three years.
Stuart Tomc, vice president of human nutrition for CBD purveyor CV Sciences, said his company welcomes increased scrutiny of the controversial ingredient category.
The low barriers to entry in the dietary supplement industry create the risk that the good deeds of the many will be besmirched by the transgressions of the few. Fortunately, there is something that can be done about it, given enough collective will.
Ingredient supplier Compound Solutions alleges that several raw material distributors and contract manufacturers have violated its exclusive patent for a popular exogenous ketone called goBHB.
The European Commission (EC) has given its seal of approval to Biova’s eggshell membrane for use in food supplements, representing the first approval of its kind for this ingredient.
FDA’s draft guidance on the labeling of products containing live microorganisms is a step in the right direction but does not go far enough, stakeholders say.
Four trade associations have sent out warnings to the public regarding ‘phenibut,’ which they say is a dangerous substance illegally posing as a dietary supplement.
“Just because we haven’t taken enforcement action people seem to think it [CBD] is OK,” said Steven Tave, director of the FDA’s Office of Dietary Supplement Programs, at a recent industry conference. “Anyone who thinks it is lawful is mistaken.”
Italy’s Ministry of Health has notified the European Commission (EC) of its intention to set maximum levels of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) in food supplements.
Companies seeking to commercialise a probiotic product across the globe face a 'daunting task', which is why trade association the International Probitics Association (IPA) is vowing not to let up in its efforts to achieve a more consistent...
Internal alignment within a nutrition company is just as important as external collaboration, in order to ensure that the regulatory environment is as favourable and effective as possible.
In the rush to market for CBD products something seems to have been left by the wayside. What do the marketers of these products believe they will do for people?
A pregnancy supplement regimen offered by Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand Goop is the subject of alleged multiple breaches to UK advertising and trading standards.
Amarin Corporation, maker of EPA drug Vascepa, has sued two omega-3s finished good manufacturers for unfair trade practices for allegedly using the results of the company’s large scale drug trial to market their own fish-oil based dietary supplements.
The Nagoya Protocol, the big changes coming for Lactobacillus classification, and how to boost your chances of success with an NDI notification were just some of the topic covered during the third annual IPA Workshop in DC.
The source of CBD should be of concern for the companies marketing the ingredient, said a legal expert at a recent dietary supplement industry event. But he also said the regulatory landscape for the ingredient is shifting so fast that any opinions he...
Dietary supplement direct sales company Usana reported a 13.4% rise in sales in its most recent quarter. The increase was driven almost entirely by soaring sales in its Asia-Pacific region.
The stress of being an entrepreneur led to the development of one of the newer products in the CBD space—a line of gummies marketed for anxiety relief.
As the Supplement OWL approaches 12,000 labels in its Tier 1 product label library, the Council for Responsible has announced a new pilot program to build out Tier 2, which will be known as the Commercial Data Exchange, or CDX.
Making claims on products in the healthy aging sector is fraught with peril, as older adults, along with children, are seen as the most vulnerable populations, an expert says.
A paper that published this morning in the JAMA Network Open journal found that FDA had identified 776 adulterated dietary supplements in a 10-year period ending in 2016. As most of these products were tainted with drugs, calling them ‘supplements’ was...
The Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program has released a draft version of its standard operating procedure for the destruction of defective ingredients, which has been seen as a landmark in the dietary supplement industry’s self regulation efforts.
If you ask the FDA or the DEA if CBD (cannabidiol) is permitted in foods, beverages and supplements, the answer is a pretty unequivocal NO. If you ask the scores of companies currently selling it in everything from CBD-infused soda to smoothie kits, the...
Whole food vitamin maker MegaFood has launched a petition drive aimed at banning the use of the pesticide glyphosate as a desiccant on crops before harvest.
Does DHSEA contain within it the seeds of the industry’s downfall? The freewheeling marketplace this regulation created has placed the barriers to entry so low that less than reputable companies have room to maneuver, creating risk for the whole industry.
The body of published studies on multi-ingredient, pre-workout supplements to date suggests that they do have promise as performance boosters, according to a paper published recently.
A new guidance from FDA on how to determine facility status under FSMA is a step forward in applying these rules to the dietary supplement industry, an expert says.
Are supplements getting better? It’s a bit of a tricky question when applied to probiotics, as the ingredients are relatively new to the market. There are many examples of quality improvements within this category, but it exhibits some features that are...
Hemp Oil + by legacy supplement company Thorne Research is relatively new, released only in March this year. The product launch proved to be the company’s ‘most successful’ so far, according to one exec.
A new collaboration between the International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) and William Reed, the publishers of NutraIngredients-USA, will benefit the sports nutrition sector and provide the platform for a new annual Sports Nutrition Summit that...
There has been a significant increase in food and beverage Prop 65 actions in the past five years, with particularly strong growth in notices relating to lead, acrylamide and cadmium, according to new data compiled by attorneys at Perkins Coie.
Results from an omega-3 study found a positive link between treatment using EPA and cardiovascular outcomes. It was backed by pharmaceutical company Amarin, which enjoyed a 300% surge in shares after the study results were announced.
Supplement critic Dr Pieter Cohen has trained his sights on probiotics for a new opinion paper, stating that the sector has spun hundreds of small studies favorably and also practices creative advertising.
Omega-3s are a category of products that embody the notion that supplements are getting ‘better.’ They started out at a high level and have gone on from there.
Like all emerging industries, sports nutrition thrives on innovation and a degree of risk-taking that has seen the likes of ketone-based drinks, probiotics and human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) emerge as credible mainstream products.
Are dietary supplements getting ‘better?’ Or are the new products that come onto the market merely a matter of churn, replacing tired packaging and marketing concepts with updated versions?
Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, of US Food and Drug Administration, has issued a public statement about the continued marketing of kratom as an opioid withdrawal medication and announced more warning letters sent to marketers of the botanical.
Prostate health is an often neglected area of men’s health, one that could drive significant growth in the future sales of herbal supplements as questions of healthy aging come to the fore, a prominent industry executive says.
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has identified a number of knowledge gaps in the hazard and risk assessment of nano-sized pigments used for colouring a range of products including supplements.
The US Food and Drug Administration today issued a draft guidance on labeling of live microbial ingredients (probiotics) as colony forming units (CFUs) in addition to weight, as is currently specified in the regulations.
A consumer survey commissioned by consulting firm Trust Transparency Consulting found that around 91% of consumers will not buy a supplement if it’s labeled as synthetic.
