current good manufacturing practices
Associations Respond to Melatonin Study Presented at the 2025 AHA Scientific Sessions
Long-term use of melatonin supplements, often used to promote sleep and address insomnia, was associated with a higher risk of heart failure diagnosis, heart failure hospitalization and death from any cause in chronic insomnia, according to a preliminary study to be presented at the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2025. In the study, researchers classified people who ...
OmniActive’s Facilities Achieve NSF-GMP Certification
OmniActive Health Technologies (Mumbai, India, and Bridgewater, NJ) has announced that both its manufacturing facilities in Pune and Hosur, India have achieved good manufacturing practice (GMP) compliance certification from NSF International. The certification was awarded under NSF/ANSI 173, Section 8, which includes requirements from the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and current good manufacturing practices ...
Alkemist Alerts Industry to Potentially Incomplete Pesticide Testing
When Alkemist Labs (Garden Grove, CA) added pesticide testing to its suite of services earlier this year, the company stated it was surprised that the reports several clients had been getting revealed that pesticides testing by some third-party labs is not as comprehensive as the clients had assumed. <561> is the USP (U.S. Pharmacopeia) general ...
Nutrasource Joins NASC as Preferred Supplier
Nutrasource Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Services (Guelph, ON, Canada), a global full-service contract research organization (CRO), has announced its membership into the NASC (National Animal Supplement Council) as a Preferred Supplier. Preferred Suppliers are companies that are pre-qualified to supply products and services to NASC Primary Suppliers without additional vendor qualifications that fall under NASC cGMPS ...
CRN Says “60 Minutes” Probiotic Segment Was Right on Safety, but Wrongly Dismissed Their Benefits
In response to a “60 Minutes” segment on probiotics released June 28, 2020 titled, “Do Probiotics Actually Do Anything?” Andrea Wong, PhD, senior vice president, scientific & regulatory affairs, Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) noted that “The vigorous body of scientific research exploring the benefits of probiotics is providing increased understanding of the role probiotics ...
Senator Hatch Announces Retirement
On January 2, the longest-serving Senate Republican, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah announced that he would not seek re-election for an eighth term. Sen. Hatch, who formed and led the Dietary Supplement Caucus in the Senate, co-authored the landmark legislation that established a rational framework for regulating dietary supplements, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education ...
SIDI Work Group Calls for Comments on Draft of Updated Protocol
The dietary supplement industry’s self-regulatory coalition, the SIDI Work Group, recently released an updated draft of the “Standardized Information on Dietary Ingredients (SIDI) Protocol,” and seeks feedback from industry stakeholders and regulators by July 3, 2017. The SIDI Protocol has gained significant traction within the industry since its original release in 2008. The protocol provides ...
INNOBIO Announces Self-Affirmed GRAS Status for CLA Products
INNOBIO Ltd. (Dalian, China) has announced that its entire line of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) products has obtained self-affirmed GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status for use in food and dietary supplement applications. Under provisions of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, administered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), INNOBIO’s CLA products ...
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