Daniel Fabricant
Senate Confirms Hahn as FDA Commissioner
In a 72-18 Senate vote, Stephen Hahn, MD, FASTRO was confirmed as the new head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), taking charge at a regulatory agency that oversees products ranging from complex cancer drugs, to food, cosmetics, tobacco and CBD. “We look forward to working with Dr. Hahn and his staff to ...
President Trump Nominates Stephen Hahn as FDA Commissioner
According to Politico, President Donald Trump announced last week that he will nominate Stephen Hahn, MD, FASTRO, a cancer specialist and hospital administrator, to lead the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration). Trump had been rumored to make this selection for several months. If confirmed by the Senate, the top FDA post would mark Hahn’s first ...
CBD Usage Drops Sharply When Consumers Learn FDA Has No Safety Standards
In a warning sign for the burgeoning hemp and CBD industry, a new poll shows that 44 percent of Americans are less likely to use CBD products after learning that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has no standards in place to protect consumers, including 30 percent who say they would be far less ...
NPA Files For Bankruptcy
The Natural Products Association (NPA), which said it is the largest and oldest U.S. nonprofit dedicated to the natural products industry, filed for bankruptcy protection on August 19, citing six straight years of losses and a costly arbitration with a former chief financial officer. CEO and President Daniel Fabricant, PhD said in a filing with ...
Industry Touts New Benchmarking Standards at ANSI’s Dietary Supplements Standardization Coordination Meeting
New benchmarking standards for nutritional supplements were discussed on May 13, during the American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) Dietary Supplements Standardization Coordination Meeting. Dadrion Gaston, senior director, corporate ethics & compliance for Walmart led a panel discussion on the Supplement Safety and Compliance Initiative (SSCI), which includes new benchmarking guidance that is being onboarded by the world’s ...
FDA’s Request for Supplement Registration Doesn’t Unburden Industry, Says NPA
The Natural Products Association (NPA) recently asked Congress to reject the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) budget request for a product registration system for nutritional supplements, as it’s unclear of what value is added to the agency’s mission of promoting and protecting public health. “The administration has been clear that they want to unburden ...
FDA Announces New Attention to Dietary Supplement Regulations
FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, has announced that the agency is planning “new efforts to strengthen regulation of dietary supplements by modernizing and reforming FDA’s oversight,” with a goal of implementing “one of the most significant modernizations of dietary supplement regulation and oversight in more than 25 years.” The commissioner’s ...
NPA Asks for Consistent National Standard for Plant-based Food Labeling
The Natural Products Association (NPA) recently urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt a policy of enforcement discretion on standards of identity for products that use dairy names to describe plant-based products such as “soy milk” and “almond milk.” “Plant-based products, as long as they are properly qualified, like almond milk, soy ...
Nutritional Supplements Access Preserved in Arizona
A proposal that would have drastically limited access to safe, legal and popular products for Arizonans was changed recently with the help of the Natural Products Association (NPA) and the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), who worked with the Arizona Board of Pharmacy and other state policymakers on the issue. The proposal under consideration would have ...
Efficient Regulatory Structure Critical to Protecting Consumers and Public Health, says NPA
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has called for a streamlined and efficient regulatory structure to protect consumers and public health as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implements its “Comprehensive, Multi-Year Nutrition Innovation Strategy.” “NPA supports the goals of FDA in its plans for the Multi-Year Nutrition Innovation Strategy and its efforts to promote ...
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