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NAI Becomes First Company to Meet New SSCI Benchmarking Standards
Natural Alternatives International (NAI, Carlsbad, CA) has become the first company to meet new safety and benchmarking standards created by the Supplement Safety & Compliance Initiative (SSCI). The announcement follows a more than five-year effort by the world’s leading nutritional supplement retailers—including Walmart and GNC—in collaboration with the Natural Products Association (NPA) and its members, to ...
UNPA Turns Up the Heat on Industry Standards Post NY AG
Summit stresses importance of identity testing and industry cooperation. By Janet Poveromo The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) Dietary Supplement Analytical Summit, held November 5-6 in Salt Lake City, UT, kicked off with a warning from UNPA President Loren Israelsen: actions by attorneys general (AG) are not going away. He described a recent NAAG (National ...
Industry Responds to Oregon AG Lawsuit Against GNC
The natural products industry is responding to a lawsuit filed by Oregon Attorney General (AG) Ellen Rosenblum alleging that supplement retailer GNC (Pittsburgh, PA) violated the state’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act. The lawsuit accuses GNC of selling workout supplements containing picamilon, a prescription drug used to treat neurological conditions. Acting Deputy Director of the Dietary ...
GNC Reaches Agreement with NY AG
On March 30, GNC (Pittsburgh, PA) announced that it has reached an agreement with the New York Attorney General (NYAG) that affirms the company’s Herbal Plus products were in full compliance with the federal U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) requirements and acknowledges GNC’s full cooperation with the AG’s inquiries. In ...
Industry Responds to NY Attorney General’s Allegations
On February 2, the New York State attorney general’s office accused four major retailers—GNC, Target, Walgreens and Walmart—of selling fraudulent and potentially dangerous herbal supplements and demanded that they remove the products from store shelves, according to a New York Times (NYT) article. Authorities said they had conducted tests on top-selling store brands of herbal supplements at ...
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