Regulatory

The Council for Responsible Nutrition, the Natural Products Association, and many others submitted recommendations for how FDA should regulate use of the term “natural.”

The new Herbal MediaWatch highlights medicinal plant-related articles from a range of mainstream and industry publications, research websites, and blogs.

In a recent letter to FDA, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) proposes a new labeling requirement for ingredients that are self-determined as GRAS without FDA review.

Why a consumer-protection case out of Santa Monica, CA, could be a red flag.

The newly authorized claim says replacing sugars with inulin “induces a lower blood glucose rise after their consumption compared to sugar-containing foods/drinks.”

FDA has issued a “letter of no objection” to World Food Processing for its PurisPea un-hydrolyzed and hydrolyzed pea protein.

The approvals make Probio’Stick the “first and only probiotic with approved health claims in the gut-brain axis area” in Canada, according to Lallemand.

The Royal Society for Public Health (U.K.) proposes new food-labeling symbols that show how many minutes of physical exercise are equivalent to the calories contained in food products.

The registry will be developed and managed by a third-party vendor, says CRN. It is planned for launch by the end of the year.

The enriched yeast ingredient with S-adenosylmethionine (SAM-e) from Gnosis SpA is now approved to claim “improvement for the joint wrongness” on the Japanese market.

Health Canada has approved Ingredion's type-2 quillaja extract for use as an emulsifying agent in a variety of food and beverage applications.

“This type of blatant illegal activity is not only disturbing, but also disruptive, to companies in the dietary supplement industry who sell reputable products,” said CRN President and CEO Steve Mister.

The latest strategies for catching botanical adulteration combine new and old testing methods.

Algae Life Sciences announced today that it has successfully petitioned FDA for a New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) notification for its astaxanthin ingredient.

The products under FDA censure are largely marketed as weight-loss supplements.

The company received the highest possible rating of “excellent.”

At Natural Products Expo West, I spoke to many companies about how the industry is both talking about transparency and acting on it during the past year of negative industry scrutiny.

Can factory-direct ingredient e-commerce survive in a time of increased quality-control scrutiny for dietary supplements?

A California federal jury ruled on Monday that Coke does not owe POM $77.5 million for misleading advertising of its Minute Maid Pomegranate Blueberry 100% Fruit Juice Blend.

Will the rest of the dietary supplements industry follow GNC’s lead on GMPs?

The defeated legislation, dubbed the “DARK” Act by consumer groups, would have preempted state-mandated GMO-labeling laws.

HP Ingredients’ LJ 100 recently received a safety confirmation from Intertek and a product license granting four new health claims from Health Canada.

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly confirmed Robert Califf, MD, as the new FDA commissioner on Wednesday.

A recent spate of FDA warning letters does not mean the emerging CBD dietary supplements market is in trouble, say insiders. But it does raise some important questions about what's fair in terms of drugs versus supplements.

What do contract manufacturers have to say about the state of the dietary supplement industry’s reputation, as well as their own role?

FDA sent warning letters to eight manufacturers of hemp CBD products earlier this month.

“It adds a new level of credibility for BLIS K12,” Blis Technologies says of FDA confirming the GRAS status of its oral-health probiotic.

The new, one-day conference will take place in Bethesda, MD on May 5.

The annual members’ meeting and breakfast will take place on March 10 during the Natural Products Expo West trade show.