Natural Products Association
Associations Applaud Senate Confirmation of Gottlieb to Lead FDA
The Natural Products Association (NPA) and Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) both commended the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Scott Gottlieb, MD, to the post of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner. Gottlieb has promised access to supplements and to enforce current laws to protect consumers. “Dr. Gottlieb will ensure consumers have access to products ...
NPA Modernizes and Strengthens Bylaws
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has announced the approval of new bylaws that will govern and steer the organization into the future. The new bylaws were approved by the full membership on February 17, 2017. “NPA has being growing and doing more with less over the last three years. In order to sustain that growth ...
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 ...
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 ...
NPA Keeps Up Pressure on Puerto Rico Over New Fees
The Natural Products Association (NPA) recently urged the Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico to highlight the damaging effects of Administrative Order 346, which established barriers to retailers and distributors of natural products in Puerto Rico through new fees and unnecessary regulations, making it difficult for products to reach consumers. The Task Force is scheduled ...
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 ...
Olympians Embrace Nutritional Supplements
Sports federations and hundreds of individual athletes from around the world have embraced dietary supplements as they headed to Rio for this Summer’s Olympic games. At least 14 Olympic sports federations in the U.S. and around the world have recently signed sponsorship deals with sports nutrition companies, including USA Gymnastics and USA Track & Field, which recently ...
NPA Seeks Vitamin Inclusion in WIC Program
The Natural Products Association (NPA) recently submitted comments to the Institute of Medicine advocating for expanding access to vitamins for low-income mothers and children. NPA submitted its comments as part of a Congressionally mandated study that will examine the impact of expanding the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC) to cover certain ...
NPA Moves to Capitol Hill
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has officially moved to its new office located at 440 1st St. N.W., Washington D.C. The close proximity to Capitol Hill will allow for NPA to better serve its members by continuing to bolster its political and legislative efforts. NPA was previously located at Dupont Circle. While that location served its purpose ...
NPA Works to Repeal Puerto Rico Rule That Limits Access to Supplements
The Natural Products Association (NPA) is meeting with members of the House of Representatives to overturn an administrative order issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s Department of Health that would raise prices for dietary supplement and natural products consumers and adds requirements for retailers/distributors inconsistent with federal law. NPA is seeking to attach the ...
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