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FDA launches directory of ingredients used in products marketed as supplements

07-Mar-2023 By Stephen Daniells

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has unveiled a new Dietary Supplement Ingredient Directory, providing detailed information on 27 ingredients that the Agency states are used in products marketed as dietary supplements.

Dodgy ingredients not currently in spotlight, but experts say formulators still churning away in the shadows

22-Sep-2022 By Hank Schultz

The use of dodgy ingredients in sports nutrition products has gotten less attention in recent years, but experts say unscrupulous formulators continue to find ways to play in the penumbra of the sports nutrition sector.

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FDA’s Welch on enforcement: ‘Sometimes you need a hammer but, at times, the hammer is not the best option’

28-Jun-2022 By Stephen Daniells

Ingredient-specific actions, as evidenced recently by warning letters to 10 firms in the sports nutrition space, are important to FDA’s regulation of dietary supplements but additional actions are hampered by having to deal with problematic ingredients...

Online retailers can help stop doping and questionable supplements: Consultant

06-Mar-2014 By Luca Bucchini, PhD

If the nutritional supplements sector is to ever cast off its reputation for ‘dangerous’ and unlabelled contaminants then big online retails must embrace and enforce stricter anti-doping policies, argues Luca Bucchini, PhD.

FDA seizes another $2 million worth of DMAA products

19-Nov-2013 By Hank Schultz

The FDA moved to seize more than $2 million worth of DMAA-containing products from Georgia-based Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals Inc.  US Marshals seized the goods after agency investigators determined they contained 1, 3-Dimethylamylamine HCl (DMAA) or its chemical...

More DMAA products come off market

21-Jun-2013 By Hank Schultz

Beta Labs, a dietary supplements distributor and retailer, has recalled four sports supplement products that contain DMAA. The company said it initiated the recall after “a review of recent FDA communications related to 1,3 dimethylamylamine (DMAA).”

DMAA: Only found in select geranium, says new USPLabs-funded study

03-Dec-2012 By Stephen Daniells

Controversial ingredient DMAA has been detected in geranium from select regions of China, but not all, according to a new study from the University of Memphis and funded by USPLabs.

Updated: NSF and USADA voice concerns over USPlabs’ DMAA analysis

16-Aug-2012 By Stephen Daniells

Analytical experts from NSF International and USADA have voiced concerns over the new DMAA analysis that claims to confirm the presence of DMAA in geranium, NutraIngredients-USA can report.

USPlabs-funded study claims to ‘confirm presence of DMAA in Chinese geranium'

10-Aug-2012 By Stephen Daniells

Controversial ingredient DMAA has been detected in Chinese geranium, according to a new study from Intertek AAC Labs and funded by USPlabs, which challenges other recent studies that demonstrated its absence in the plant.

DMAA in the dock

Australian medicines agency adds DMAA to poisons list

16-Jul-2012 By Shane STARLING

Australia’s medicines regulator – the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) - has added DMAA to its Schedule 9 list of prohibited substances and poisons that includes cannabis, salvia divinorum, GHB, heroin, psilocybin and LSD.

Pressure mounts on USPLabs as another peer-reviewed paper concludes DMAA is NOT in geranium

13-Jul-2012 By Elaine Watson

If last month’s paper in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology was seen by some observers as the ‘final nail in DMAA’s coffin’, a new paper published in Drug Testing and Analysis this month appears to drive that nail home.

DMAA fallout: 'The industry is always on the lookout for the next big stimulant', says All American EFX boss

07-May-2012 By Elaine Watson

With the road ahead now appearing closed - or at least decidedly rocky - for pre-workout stimulant DMAA (1,3-Dimethylamylamine), attention is turning to alternatives. But could they be just as controversial?

Is the game up for DMAA? Why the FDA crackdown raises more questions than answers…

03-May-2012 By Elaine Watson

They’ve had the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads for months. So when 10 firms selling DMAA supplements were finally told to put up or shut up by the FDA last week, it looked like the game might finally be up for the controversial stimulant.

CRN UK on DMAA: “The law is clear. DMAA is illegal in the EU and should be stripped from shelves”

09-Jan-2012 By Shane Starling

Trade in sports products containing the controversial stimulant DMAA (methylhexaneamine/1,3-dimethylamylamine) is illegal in the European Union, and should be brought to an immediate halt by EU and member state authorities, according to the Council for...

GNC: There is no scientific evidence to prove causal link between DMAA and AERs

06-Jan-2012 By Elaine Watson

GNC has weighed into the debate over the stimulant DMAA (1,3-Dimethylamylamine) following the recall of DMAA-containing products from stores on military bases while the Department of Defense conducts a probe into its safety.

Health Canada: DMAA is not from geranium

24-Aug-2011 By Stephen Daniells

DMAA, a substance used in sports and weight loss supplements and reported by some to be a natural constituent of geranium oil, is not isolated from plants and products containing it need drug authorization, Health Canada has announced.