Dietary Supplement

FDA’s new NDI draft guidance: ‘Not much that’s surprising’

15-Aug-2016 By Stephen Daniells

The new draft guidance for new dietary ingredient notifications is “more positive than negative”, says Steve Mister, CEO of the Council for Responsible Nutrition.

It’s here! FDA releases new NDI draft guidance

11-Aug-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Master Files and a grandfathered list are among the highlights in the FDA’s new Draft Guidance for New Dietary Ingredient Notifications, released this morning.

Supplement shaming wins first Olympic gold medal

10-Aug-2016 By Shane STARLING

It didn’t take long for a dope-busted Olympic athlete to blame a contaminated food supplement for his infringement and sportsmen and sports bodies to jump into the fray with ‘see? you just can’t trust supplements’ missives.

NPA says input on Puerto Rican supplement regulation will form part of debt review

08-Aug-2016 By Hank Schultz

The Natural Products Association has stepped up its campaign at the national level to blunt the effects of an administrative order in Puerto Rico that puts additional burdens on dietary supplement companies operating there.

Private equity acquisition trend continues with sale of probiotic brand

03-Aug-2016 By Hank Schultz

The steady march of acquistions in the natural products business fueled by private equity continues with the purchase of a probiotics line by Clarion Brands.

The NutraIngredients-USA Anti-Aging Forum 2016

Beauty-from-within category success will require a combination of topicals and supplements, say experts

29-Jul-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Marketers of supplements positioned for beauty-from-within need to tie-in closely with cosmetic beauty products to further develop the market, and supplements products should be packaged much more like cosmetic products, experts told viewers of the NutraIngredients-USA...

Consumer Reports names ‘15 supplement ingredients to avoid’

28-Jul-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Green tea extract, yohimbe, kava, and caffeine are among 15 ingredients to avoid in dietary supplements, according to Consumer Reports.

Learning from others’ mistakes: NPA launches warning letter database

27-Jul-2016 By Stephen Daniells

The Natural Products Association (NPA) has announced the launch of its warning letter database, giving access to data on GMP violations, technical adulteration, and labeling infringements.

Tespo: The ‘complete delivery system’ boosting compliance with liquid supplements

26-Jul-2016 By Stephen Daniells

With a dispenser that sits nicely on the counter, Tespo is aiming to boost compliance and deliver the daily nutrients and bioactives in a liquid.

Zeaxanthin shows skin health benefits from within: Study

25-Jul-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Dietary supplements of the carotenoid zeaxanthin with sea buckthorn fruit oil and wheat ceramides may reduce wrinkles in women, says a new study.

Special edition: Anti-Aging

A Global Look: How the US anti-aging supplement market fares

21-Jul-2016 By Adi Menayang

According to data by Euromonitor International, the US beauty dietary supplement market places seventh globally in retail sales.

Herbalife now free to pursue in-house manufacturing goal

19-Jul-2016 By Hank Schultz

Nutrition giant Herbalife followed a winding road to the payment of a $200 million fine and an FTC-mandated restructuring.  The network marketing company, with more than $4.5 billion revenue in 2015, can now move forward on its mission of business expansion...

AMA warns members about rise of nootropics

18-Jul-2016 By Hank Schultz

A new policy by the American Medical Association on nootropics once again highlights the blurred edges of what can legitimately be called a ‘dietary supplement.’

Special edition: Anti-aging

Fitting beauty within healthy aging not easily done but worth the effort, experts say

15-Jul-2016 By Hank Schultz

Fitting a beauty-from within brand message into a healthy aging product positioning is challenging but can have a huge payoff, brand holders say.

Special Edition: Anti-Aging

Seeing is believing: Managing consumer expectations for beauty from within products

15-Jul-2016 By Stephen Daniells

When consumers use beauty-from-within products they expect to see the effects in the mirror, and sometimes quickly, but this is actually more of an opportunity than a challenge, say experts.

Experts dispute notion that DSHEA hamstrung FDA

08-Jul-2016 By Hank Schultz

Despite the tenor of a recent meeting of ex FDA commissioners, DSHEA didn’t tie the hands of federal regulators, experts contacted by NutraIngredients-USA have said.

CRN names UL for Dietary Supplement Product Registry

05-Jul-2016 By Stephen Daniells

UL has been retained to develop and administer the dietary supplement product registry, which is expected to be up and running by the end of 2016.

‘Impactful meaningful self-regulation’: CRN & NAD celebrate 10 years of advertising program

28-Jun-2016 By Stephen Daniells

With over 250 completed advertising challenges, the Council for Responsible Nutrition Foundation (CRNF) and National Advertising Division (NAD) is celebrating a successful decade of self-regulatory program on advertising.

Federal report on alternative health understates impact of supplements, CRN says

27-Jun-2016 By Hank Schultz

A recent communication from two federal agencies paints a promising picture of Americans’ allegiance to alternative health approaches but may understate how big a part dietary supplements play.

Is your product a supplement, or a food? Don’t let FDA decide for you

27-Jun-2016 By Hank Schultz

A recent warning letter to a company making powdered protein products emphasizes once again the importance of being consistent in the concept of your product and the messaging that is used around it.

Careful market research underlies hangover product's launch

24-Jun-2016 By Hank Schultz

The developers of a new hangover supplement believe careful pre launch market analysis will help them succeed where others have failed.

Special edition: Bone & Joint Health

MSM helps joint health big players do their thing

21-Jun-2016 By Hank Schultz

If joint health ingredients were a volleyball team, glucosamine and chondroitin would be the star-quality hitters up front. MSM, or methylsulfonylmethane, would be the setter, the smaller, more nimble player helping the big girls do their thing.

Virun extends IP on Esolv clear beverage technology

17-Jun-2016 By Hank Schultz

Virun NutraBiosciences has announced another patent on its emulsification and encapsulation technology that harnesses vitamin E.

Doctor's Best sold to Chinese company, extending trend in industry

16-Jun-2016 By Hank Schultz

The Doctor’s Best brand of supplements has been sold to a major Chinese ingredient manufacturer, which is part of a trend in the industry, one observer said.

CRN: Dietary supplements industry contributes $122 billion, 750K jobs to US economy

08-Jun-2016 By Stephen Daniells

The US dietary supplements industry’s contributes over $120 billion to the US economy, or 0.68% of GDP, says a new report.

Consumer confidence, transparency & innovation: What's going on in the dietary supplements industry?

07-Jun-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Schneiderman, McCaskill, Cohen, Frontline… it’s been blow after blow for the dietary supplements industry, so you have to ask if consumer confidence and trust in the products have been affected.

NutraIngredients-USA’s Top 5 most-read articles of 2016… so far

02-Jun-2016

CBD warning letters, Capstone’s lawsuit against MusclePharm, multivitamin science, and negative media dominate the most-read list of 2016 to date.

Warning letter provides insight into labeling responsibilities

31-May-2016 By Hank Schultz

A warning letter to a company called Rocky Fork Formulas has particular insights for the labeling operations in the dietary supplement responsibility chain.

TABS Analytics Vitamins & Minerals Study: Are heavy users in decline?

23-May-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Heavy buyers of vitamin and mineral supplement products are in decline, according to new research from the TABS Analytics.

McCaskill's push for FDA review of herb/chemotherapy interactions called an intrusion into doctor/patient relationship

23-May-2016 By Hank Schultz

Industry stakeholders called Sen. Claire McCaskill’s recent call for FDA scrutiny of supplement interactions with chemotherapy treatments unnecessary and an intrusion on doctor/patient relationships.

Special Edition: Contract manufacturing

Contract manufacturers compete in crowded field on quality, price, dosage form familiarity

19-May-2016 By Hank Schultz

Contract manufacturers bring a range of capabilities to the table, from pricing advantages based on scale, to expertise with certain market niches or dosage forms, to a reputation for top shelf quality.  It’s a crowded field with companies striving for...

Special Edition: Contract manufacturing

Qualifying your contract manufacturer: The key questions to ask

19-May-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Asking for details of the quality program, and physically visiting a facility to audit it are just two of the top things that brand owners should do to qualify their contract manufacturer.

Sen McCaskill calls for inquiry into chemotherapy-supplement interactions

18-May-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Senator Claire McCaskill, the ranking member of the US Senate Special Committee on Aging, is seeking clarification about potential interactions between dietary supplements and chemotherapy treatments.

Investor takes Cyanotech to task over astaxanthin supply

13-May-2016 By Hank Schultz

An investment firm that now owns almost 13% of the stock of Cyanotech is announcing an effort to push the company to speed up the process of bringing additional astaxanthin supply capacity online.

FDA’s new dietary supplement office should focus on tainted products, GMPs & NDIs, industry leaders say

10-May-2016 By Elizabeth Crawford

With the recent elevation of dietary supplement oversight from a division to its own office at FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the agency should renew its focus on reducing tainted supplements, improving compliance with good manufacturing...

May Product Round-Up: More gummies, and new combinations

05-May-2016 By Adi Menayang

This month, supplement manufacturers came up with new ways of presenting dietary supplements high in demand: a curcumin-omega 3 combo, multiple probiotic gummies in different flavors, and a pouch of melatonin gummies for on-the-go consumers who need help...

Supreme Court affirms FTC's position that POM's claims were unsupported

03-May-2016 By Hank Schultz

The US Supreme Court has declined to take up the FTC vs POM case. The action in effect affirms FTC's prior determinations that POM misled consumers in the advertising of its pomegranate products.

A wake-up call: UNPA survey shows lack of consumer & market awareness of credible certification seals

29-Apr-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Eighty-one percent of responders to a recent UNPA survey think the dietary supplements industry would need a new quality seal if the industry had to move toward a single seal of quality, a result that should serve as a wake-up call to the existing and...

US Pharmacopeial Convention joins UNPA

28-Apr-2016

The US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has become an Associate Member of the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA).

ProbioTech’s citizen petition calls for probiotic suppository to be included in supplement definition

28-Apr-2016 By Adi Menayang

The FDA defines supplements as something ingested. ProbioTech is petitioning an amendment to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act 1994 (DSHEA) to ensure that suppositories are included in the definition as well.

CSPI makes second call to FDA for ban of high potency caffeine retail sales

27-Apr-2016 By Hank Schultz

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has called on the Food and Drug Administration to ban the sale of high potency caffeine products to consumers. Despite FDA’s warning letters of last year, the products are still widely for sale, CSPI said.

Developers hope to enter new category with inhalable vitamin product

26-Apr-2016 By Hank Schultz

A pair of entrepreneurs are pushing the delivery mode envelope with a new vitamin product meant to be inhaled.  Called Vitamin Vapor, the new product features a suite of B vitamins.

Observers say Harvard anti-supplements article so poorly done as to be 'embarrassing'

25-Apr-2016 By Hank Schultz

A recent Harvard publication blasting supplements as ‘suspect’ and ‘useless’ was criticized by industry observers as ‘unbalanced’ and even ‘embarrassing.’

FDA ‘appreciates’ CRN’s product registry efforts

15-Apr-2016 By Stephen Daniells

The US Food and Drug Administration tells NutraIngredients-USA that it looks forward to learning more about the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s proposed industry-wide dietary supplement product registry.

UNPA adds new executive & science & technology services members

14-Apr-2016 By Stephen Daniells

The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) has added Xin Du Bio-Tech and Healthnotes to its membership roster.

Nationwide GMO labeling, insurance coverage & increased enforcement top NPA's wish list on Capitol Hill

14-Apr-2016 By Elizabeth Crawford

Members of the Natural Products Association met with their senators' and representatives' offices in Washington, DC, April 13 to promote standardized GMO labeling nationwide, insurance coverage of dietary supplements, increased oversight of...

FTC action casts more doubt over usefulness of 'all natural' claims

14-Apr-2016 By Hank Schultz

The Federal Trade Commission has taken action on natural claims, something which should make dietary supplement companies sit up and take notice, an attorney says.

OTC cold remedy maker moves into supplements to reach markets less dependent on illness rates

13-Apr-2016 By Hank Schultz

The makers of a well-known OTC cold remedy are launching a line of dietary supplements as a way to expand beyond a category that is dependent on seasonal illness rates.

CRN to launch industry-wide dietary supplement product registry

13-Apr-2016 By Stephen Daniells

The Council for Responsible Nutrition’s Board has unanimously authorized the creation of an industry-wide dietary supplement product registry to be launched by the end of the year.

Sen McCaskill: “We shouldn’t be relying on Cohen et al to ensure industry is acting responsibly”

07-Apr-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Senator Claire McCaskill, the ranking member of the US Senate Special Committee on Aging, is alarmed that FDA has taken so long to act against manufacturers of supplements containing methylsynephrine / oxilofrine.