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Nutrition Industry Executive’s Top 10 Stories From 2023
As we approach the end of 2023, Nutrition Industry Executive (NIE) magazine looks back at the most read stories throughout the year. This year featured news items including the FDA unveiling its new Dietary Supplement Ingredient Directory, and aspartame to be declared a possible carcinogen by the WHO. See below for the top headlines of the year. ...
Panel Covers Current Legal Landscape of Health and Nutrition Industry at SupplySide West
From CBD to kratom to notification letters and more, a panel of legal experts held a discussion on what they deemed as the most pressing topics in today’s complex regulatory environment in the natural products industry. The seminar, titled “A Comprehensive Look into Health and Nutrition Legal and Regulatory Landscape” was held on Oct. 24 ...
NAD Recommends Supplement Brand Makes Clearer Disclosure of Affiliate Advertising Relationships
The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs recently recommended disclosure of the affiliate relationships between Renue by Science, LLC (Jacksonville, FL) and third-party websites promoting sales of its dietary supplements be modified. NAD also recommended that Renue by Science modify or discontinue certain YouTube videos that it considered “challenged,” to disclose the advertiser’s ...
Responding to FTC’s 700 Product Claim Notices
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in April sent out nearly 700 penalty offense notices to companies across a number of industries, including pharma, consumer goods and retail, cannabis, cosmetics, foods and dietary supplements, warning that failure to substantiate product claims could result in civil penalties of more than $50,000 per violation. While companies shouldn’t ignore the notices, advertising ...
CHPA Responds to AMA Policy Calling For Increased Regulation of Dietary Supplements
At the Special Meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates, physicians adopted new policy, which expands upon the AMA’s existing policy to call for more stringent federal regulation of dietary supplements—including increased oversight of manufacturing, marketing, product labeling and adverse event reporting. Under the new policy, the AMA strongly urges Congress to ...
FTC Maintains Its Focus on “Made in the USA” Claims
During the myriad legal challenges presented by doing business during a global pandemic, it would be easy for marketing departments to lose sight of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations governing such seemingly mundane claims as “Made in the USA” (MUSA); however, given recent FTC activity, companies that market products as MUSA would be well advised ...
Dietary Supplement Usage Up Dramatically During Pandemic, New Ipsos-CRN Survey Shows
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has issued results of a COVID-19-focused consumer survey that discovered more than two in five (43 percent) of dietary supplement users have changed their supplement routines since the start of the pandemic. Among those who altered their regimens due to COVID-19, 91 percent report increasing their supplement intake which ...
Operating Your Business in the Time of COVID-19
As we move past the July 4 holiday into the “dog days of summer” with no signs of abatement in the rate of infection and hospitalizations caused by COVID-19, business owners are faced with a number of challenges maintaining effective operations. Some of these challenges (keeping your workforce safe) are new, some are old with ...
AHPA Recommends FDA Implement Policies to Support Responsible Innovation
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) submitted extensive and specific policy recommendations on July 15 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support responsible dietary supplement innovation while preserving and strengthening FDA’s ability to efficiently and effectively protect the public from unsafe and unlawful products. AHPA submitted these recommendations to FDA in response to an ...
Amin Talati Law Firm Announces Name Change; Continues Expansion in Core Areas
Leading regulatory and intellectual property law firm Amin Talati has announced that effective June 1, 2019, the firm’s name changed to Amin Talati Wasserman LLP, making Ivan Wasserman, who also serves as the firm’s managing partner, a name partner. “Our new name is a reflection of how far we have come and how far we ...
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