Food Additive

Goli wins back right to use ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ in gummies product name

02-May-2022 By Hank Schultz

Goli Nutrition, Inc. has won some vindication on its appeal before the National Advertising Review Board.

Legality of the Self-GRAS process upheld in federal court

05-Oct-2021 By Danielle Masterson

The ruling affirms that substances that are self-determined to be GRAS can continue to be exempt from premarket review by FDA.

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.

‘misrepresentations of products can occur’

Aquaculture Stewardship Council sees potential in DNA seaweed testing

01-Apr-2016 By Shane Starling

DNA testing and verification of seaweed can be useful in an increasingly busy sector where quality varies and manufacturer demands are rising amid stricter regulations, an aquaculture group has said.

Cardax bolsters data set for synthetic astaxanthin, pushes forward market entry date

07-Aug-2015 By Hank Schultz

After a protracted period of development, Hawaii-based Cardax Inc. is nearing market phase for its forms of bioidentical astaxanthin. The company’s proprietary molecules were first studied more than a decade ago.

Hearing on potential changes to Redbook to take place tomorrow

NOI urges FDA to end attempts to regulate dietary supplements as food additives

08-Dec-2014 By Stephen DANIELLS

The Food and Drug Administration should finalize the revised draft guidance for New Dietary Ingredients (NDIs) and stop attempting to regulate the products and their ingredients as ‘food additives’, says Marc Ullman on behalf of Natural Organics, Inc.

Insights from SupplySide West

McGuffin: DSHEA was about preserving right to direct one's own self care

21-Oct-2014 By Hank Schultz

Michael McGuffin, president of the American Herbal Products Association, has a unique perspective on the 20th anniversary of DSHEA having started in the herbal products industry in 1974, twenty years before the law was passed. The law, as he sees it,...

DSM elbows into astaxanthin market with synthetic ingredient

18-Nov-2013 By Hank Schultz

A major competitor has entered the astaxanthin ring with DSM’s launch of its new synthetic ingredient at the Supply Side West trade show in Las Vegas last week.

Where are the dead bodies? Toxicology experts hit back at latest attack on food additive safety system

15-Aug-2013 By Elaine WATSON

The second paper from researchers at Pew Health published this month to argue that the system governing the safety of food additives is deeply flawed, fails to provide any evidence that it has allowed harmful substances to ‘slip through the net’, say...

Self-affirmed GRAS under fire again as PEW highlights ‘loophole that appears to have swallowed the law'

27-Jul-2012 By Elaine Watson

There are serious weaknesses in a system that allows firms to self-affirm the safety of food ingredients without the approval or knowledge of regulators, according to researchers conducting a probe into the nation’s food additives law.

Mister on NDI guidance: ‘We are terribly disappointed.’

06-Jul-2011 By Elaine Watson

The amount of safety data the FDA now says it requires to prove new ingredients in supplements are safe goes well beyond what Congress envisaged when it ratified DSHEA and establishes a process “ominously like the one for new food additives”, the Council...