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AHPA Proposal for Prop 65 Warning Gains Traction Among Regulators
In a breakthrough meeting with AHPA president Michael McGuffin, top officials of the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) recognized the value of AHPA’s innovative proposal to allow more informative warnings for California’s Proposition 65-listed reproductive toxins to replace the inflammatory and alarming language currently required. Based on this understanding, OEHHA requested AHPA ...
AHPA Issues Cannabis Oversight Recommendations for Regulators
The American Herbal Products Association (Silver Spring, MD, AHPA) has published recommendations for regulators to address issues related to the safe use and responsible commerce of legally marketed products derived from Cannabis species. Several states, including Massachusetts, Oregon, Nevada, and Illinois have considered AHPA’s recommendations in the development of state medical marijuana program regulations and AHPA’s recommendations ...
New FDA Inspection Tips from AHPA
The American Herbal Products Association’s (AHPA) teleseminar played a large role in helping the dietary supplement industry recognize and observe good manufacturing practices. The two-hour teleseminar, held in the middle of May, had industry legal experts, including Justin Prochnow, Esq, Marc Ullman, Esq and Ashish R. Talati, Esq provide pertinent tips on U.S. Food and ...
AHPA Launches Free Botanical References Compendium
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has launched the AHPA Botanical Identity References Compendium as a resource for manufacturers and researchers to identify botanical ingredients. The AHPA Compendium is a cooperative and centralized source of information on physical characteristics and test methods that can be used by qualified and experienced analysts to determine the identity ...
Preparing For An FDA Audit
NIE highlights the resources available and pitfalls to avoid so companies are completely prepared when an inspector comes knocking.In June 2007, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the Dietary Supplement Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) Final Rule 21 CFR Part 111. In essence, the final rule requires that the proper controls be ...
Preventing an Identity Crisis
Analytical methods are spotlighted when a botanical’s new popularity raises the specter of adulteration, but more generally help assure that that the ingredient is the genuine article.The months-long controversy over DMAA (1,3-dimethylamylamine) can be seen as a poster child for the importance of validated analytical methods. This past April, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
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