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NSF Updates Pesticide Test Requirements for Supplements
NSF International and the NSF/ANSI 173 Joint Committee have updated the pesticide testing requirements included in NSF/ANSI 173, the only American National Standard for dietary supplements. A recent NSF study established chemical-specific pesticide limits for 185 pesticides that might be present in botanical ingredients used in dietary supplement ingredients. “The new testing requirements fill an ...
Study Questions Importance of Supplements, Industry Responds
Nutritional supplement industry associations have responded to a new study led by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto, which suggests that the most commonly consumed vitamin and mineral supplements provide no consistent health benefit or harm, and says to rely on a “healthy” diet for vitamins and minerals. Published in the ...
UNPA Announces No-sale Policy for Liquid, High-dose Caffeine Products as a Condition of Membership
The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) has approved the adoption of a new, “no-sale” policy for liquid, high-dose caffeine products for retail sales. The policy is effective immediately as a condition of membership for prospective and all current UNPA members and joins a 2015 no-sale policy for bulk-powdered caffeine products. UNPA recommends that high-dose caffeine products not ...
USP Announces Updated Ingredient Verification Program
USP (United States Pharmacopeia) has updated its Ingredient Verification Programs (IVP), services that help companies ensure they meet quality standards for ingredients used in the manufacture of dietary supplements and drug products. USP has IVPs for dietary ingredients (IVP-DI), for excipients (IVP-E) and for active pharmaceutical ingredients (IVP-API). Manufacturers of finished dietary supplements and drug ...
Industry Applauds FDA Action on Highly Concentrated Caffeine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently took an important step to better protect consumers from the dangers of highly concentrated and pure caffeine products. These products present a significant public health threat because of the high risk that they will be erroneously used at excessive, potentially dangerous doses. Highly concentrated and pure caffeine, ...
The Daily Wellness Company Launches TruTag On-dose Identity Solution
TruTag Technologies (Kapolei, HI), a security and technology solution provider, announced that The Daily Wellness Company (Honolulu, HI) has launched the TruTag dosage-level product identity technology into its products in the United States, starting with its top-selling product, FertilityBlend for Women. TruTag Technologies improves the safety, traceability, and authenticity of pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals with its ...
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 ...
New Study on SARMs Reaffirms Need for Enforcement Action and Consumer Awareness
On November 28, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), published a study online entitled, “Chemical Composition and Labeling of Substances Marketed as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) and Sold Via the Internet.” In the study, researchers analyzed products that were labeled to be containing SARMs that are marketed on the internet. The researchers ...
FDA, Stakeholders Meet, Mull Over Pre-DSHEA Dietary Ingredients List
On October 3, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public meeting to discuss the development of a list of pre-Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) dietary ingredients. According to a release from Washington, D.C.-based law firm Keller and Heckman LLP, the meeting featured two stakeholder panels that presented on ...
Lallemand Receives USP’s GMP Certificate for Canadian Production Facilities
Lallemand Health Solutions announced that both of its Canadian probiotic production plants in Montreal and Mirabel successfully passed the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Quality Systems Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) audit. The company thus has become the first probiotic production facilities to receive this quality certificate. “Such achievement illustrates our long-standing commitment to quality and demonstrates ...
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