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FDA Announces New Attention to Dietary Supplement Regulations
FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, has announced that the agency is planning “new efforts to strengthen regulation of dietary supplements by modernizing and reforming FDA’s oversight,” with a goal of implementing “one of the most significant modernizations of dietary supplement regulation and oversight in more than 25 years.” The commissioner’s ...
NPA Asks for Consistent National Standard for Plant-based Food Labeling
The Natural Products Association (NPA) recently urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt a policy of enforcement discretion on standards of identity for products that use dairy names to describe plant-based products such as “soy milk” and “almond milk.” “Plant-based products, as long as they are properly qualified, like almond milk, soy ...
Nutritional Supplements Access Preserved in Arizona
A proposal that would have drastically limited access to safe, legal and popular products for Arizonans was changed recently with the help of the Natural Products Association (NPA) and the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), who worked with the Arizona Board of Pharmacy and other state policymakers on the issue. The proposal under consideration would have ...
Efficient Regulatory Structure Critical to Protecting Consumers and Public Health, says NPA
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has called for a streamlined and efficient regulatory structure to protect consumers and public health as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implements its “Comprehensive, Multi-Year Nutrition Innovation Strategy.” “NPA supports the goals of FDA in its plans for the Multi-Year Nutrition Innovation Strategy and its efforts to promote ...
FDA Asks for Consumer Input on Labeling Plant-Based Products, NPA Responds
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a request for information as it examines its approach to the use of dairy food names like “milk,” “cheese,” or “yogurt” in the labeling of plant-based foods and beverages. Earlier this year, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced FDA’s Nutrition Innovation Strategy (NIS) in a speech to the National ...
Study Advocates for Risky FMT Procedure Over Probiotic Supplements
A new study published in the medical journal Cell encourages patients to avoid probiotics in favor of a medical procedure that is known to cause adverse events in more than 25 percent of patients. The Natural Products Association (NPA) pointed out the near universal medical consensus that probiotics are safe and effective and questioned why ...
Trump Tariffs Will Impose Financial Burden on Supplement Industry, NPA Warns
The Trump Administration’s proposal to impose tariffs on key ingredients for nutritional supplements and vitamins will cause disproportionate economic harm to U.S. interests and increase costs for small businesses and consumers, the Natural Products Association (NPA) said in a letter to United States Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer. President and CEO of NPA Daniel Fabricant, ...
New Website Gives NPA Members Access to Exclusive Benefits
A new website launched by the Natural Products Association (NPA) will offer new features and resources exclusively for members, including a warning letter database, searchable disease claims database, Pre-DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994) ODI (old dietary ingredient) list, Red-Flagged Ingredients database, and educational and regulatory resources. In addition, NPA is working on a searchable ...
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 ...
NPA Northwest Re-incorporates as Positively Natural
Introducing Positively Natural, a not for profit trade association focused on cultivating the connection between natural product wholesalers and retailers by presenting opportunities for members to network, increase sales and knowledge, while creating and supporting grassroots advocacy for legislation that positively affects the sale of natural products, enhances nutritional intakes, optimizes the health and the ...
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