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Industry Roundtable: Ensuring Compliance & Improving Quality
The Participants Are: • Mariko Hill, Product Development Executive, Hong Kong, www.gencorpacific.com • Dan Lifton, President, Maypro Ventures, Purchase, NY, www.maypro.com • Roberto Pace, Vice Corporate Quality Director, Indena, Milan, Italy, www.indena.com • Andrew Shao, PhD, Interim, Senior Vice President, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, CRN, Washington, D.C., www.crnusa.org • Gary Swanson, Senior Vice President, Quality ...
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 ...
AHPA Issues Updated Slack-fill Guidance
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has updated its Slack-Fill Guidance to help the regulated supplement industry inform consumers and comply with all relevant federal requirements. This guidance was originally published in November 2016 and has been reorganized and edited for clarity, with one substantive revision in the discussion on “Label statements and fill lines” ...
2019 Industry Forecast
The Participants Are: • Jonathan Emord, Esq., President, Emord & Associates, Washington, D.C., www.emord.com • Daniel Fabricant, PhD, President and CEO Natural Products Association (NPA), Washington, D.C., www.npanational.org • Kurt Jetta, PhD, Executive Chairman and Founder, TABS Analytics, Shelton, CT, www.tabsanalytics.com • Mark LeDoux, Chair and CEO, Natural Alternatives International (NAI), Carlsbad, CA, www.nai-online.com • ...
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 ...
New Farm Bill is Imminent as it Passes House and Senate
On the evening of Dec. 10, the 2018 Farm Bill House/Senate Conference Committee released its Conference Report. The 807-page document is nearly half a foot tall. Hemp is discussed in only a few handfuls of pages. As of press time, the Senate passed the bill on Dec. 11 by a vote of 87 to 13; ...
What is Slack-fill & Why You Need to Know
It seems that we spend so much time thinking about the product that goes inside the bottle or box, that we sometimes give very little thought to the package itself. There are several issues concerning product packaging that deserve your attention, including the question of whether the container itself is potentially “misleading.” The possibility of ...
FDA Announces New Final Guidances on Revised Nutrition Labeling
On November 2, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced two new final guidances to help companies revise nutrition labels for conventional foods and dietary supplements to comply with the new regulations. One document deals with the definition of a single-serving container, reference amounts customarily consumed, which are used by companies to determine serving ...
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