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NPA: New Congress Brings Opportunity for Natural Products Industry
As part of the effort to capitalize on the opportunities the incoming Congress presents for the natural products industry and the millions of American consumers using its products, The Natural Products Association (NPA) announced that it will host the 20th Annual Natural Products Day on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 in Washington, D.C. “A new Congress ...
Associations Submit Comments on Revised NDI Draft Guidance
Some of the natural product industries’ leading associations, including the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), American Botanical Council (ABC) and Natural Products Association (NPA), recently submitted comments to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to the agency’s revised New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) Draft Guidance. FDA issued on August ...
AHPA Submits Vinpocetine Comments to FDA
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) recommends the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) consider initiating rulemaking to declare vinpocetine to be lawful dietary ingredient in comments submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). AHPA also strongly encouraged FDA to clarify that if vinpocetine is either found to be currently in the ...
NPA Supports Lawful Marketing of Vinpocetine
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has submitted comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to the agency’s recent actions to ban vinpocetine. FDA is collecting public comments following a Federal Register notice that would effectively ban vinpocetine, a widely used product found in safe and legal dietary supplements. The FDA’s decision ...
AHPA Issues Slack-fill Guidance
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has published slack-fill guidance to help the regulated supplement industry inform consumers and comply with all relevant federal requirements. The difference between the capacity of a container and the volume of product inside is known as “slack-fill.” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates how food (including dietary ...
Axiom Foods Expands Global Footprint to Produce Rice Bran Oil in India
Axiom Foods (Los Angeles, CA) is now expanding into India to produce hexane- and ethanol-free natural rice bran oil and a variety of for the human food and animal feed sectors, including the equine market. Axiom is known for developing a chemical-free enzymatic fractioning process of brown rice and mechanically fractioned pea protein, which were ...
FDA Considering Vinpocetine Ineligible as a Dietary Ingredient
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released an unprecedented Federal Register (FR) notice (Docket No: FDA-2016-N-2523) with major implications for acknowledged new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications. FDA appears to be attempting to shift the burden of demonstrating reasonable expectation of safety for vinpocetine on the industry by using the hook that it can’t ...
FDA Releases Revised Draft of NDI Guidance; AHPA Convenes Working Group for Comments
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released revised draft guidance for new dietary ingredients (NDIs) to be published in the Federal Register on Friday, Aug. 12. The revised draft replaces FDA’s 2011 draft. The guidance, “Draft Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications and Related Issues,” is subject to a 60-day comment period. ...
NPA Launches Warning Letter Database for Member Companies
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has announced the launch of its highly anticipated warning letter database. This database will be a free online tool for NPA members to view violations against the dietary supplement good manufacturing practices (GMPs), which are deemed as ‘technical adulterations’ by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration), dietary supplement labeling ...
Homeopathic Association Works with FDA to Educate Manufacturers
The American Association of Homeopathic Pharmacists’ (AAHP) latest educational webinar illustrates the homeopathic industry fostering a relationship with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ensure the highest quality of safe medicines to retailers, consumers and health practitioners across the U.S. Per the request of AAHP, the agency provided staff to present updates on its Compliance Policy for homeopathic products directly to ...
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