U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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 ...
OnlineLabels.com Launches Free Tools to Make Product Label Updates Easier
OnlineLabels.com is updating and adding brand new tools and content for their users in response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcing new format changes to nutrition facts found on food labels. The label retailer recently re-launched their free nutrition label generator to include the new required format in order to ease the ...
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 ...
Industry Urges FDA to Define “Natural”
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) submitted comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) encouraging the agency to establish, through rulemaking, a regulatory definition for the term “natural” (and possibly other terms, such as “100 percent natural” and “made with natural [named ingredient(s)]”) for the labeling of human food products, and other products ...
AHPA Advocacy Spurs Correction of FDA’s Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has corrected its Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide after the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) notified the agency of inaccurate information posted online. AHPA notified FDA in September 2015 that its guidance for industry titled “A Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide,” included one detail that contradicted current law and FDA regulations. ...
NPA Sends Letter to New FDA Commissioner
The Natural Products Association (NPA) sent a letter to Dr. Robert Califf regarding his recent confirmation to become the new commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the letter, NPA congratulated Califf on his confirmation by the U.S. Senate and outlined its priorities for the new commissioner. NPA also requested a meeting ...
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