Regulatory

The company says that luo han guo has an intense sweetness similar to sugar, allowing low levels of the juice extract to be used.

The law required FDA to provide NDI guidance, but no concrete hint of such guidance had come. Until now.

Progress on the GSFA at the 43rd session was very slow, and a number of agenda items were held over until next year. However, some items relevant to supplements were discussed.

FDA and the fight over artificial food colors.

How growing FDA and FTC collaboration changes the regulatory landscape for food and dietary supplement marketers.

Legitimate supplement companies should be aware of what third-party retailers and distributors of their products are saying.

The letter also accuses the company of making similar disease claims on its own website, www.aloeelite.com.

The claims submitted were for dental health and reduction of postprandial glycemic response.

Due to a high level of industry response to the issue, the NOP has postponed further discussion until its meeting this fall.

Bayer HealthCare LLC is facing a class-action lawsuit filed in April in California alleging that the company’s Phillips Probiotics Colon Health dietary supplement makes unsupported claims for digestive and immune health.

According to the agencies, products claimed to treat a range of STDs, including herpes, Chlamydia, genital warts, HIV, and AIDS.

Beneo’s plant in Pemuco, Chile, has been awarded its first International Food Standard (IFS) certification, with an impressive score of 99.36%.

The company’s fermentation process for producing the natural resveratrol is patented.

Winners and losers in the newest batch of EFSA health claims.

According to the FTC, Daniel Chapter One and Feijo deceptively advertised that four dietary supplements inhibit tumor formation or growth, eliminate tumors, treat or cure cancer, or heal the effects of radiation or chemotherapy.

USDA has announced that 60 products are now qualified to use the USDA BioPreferred product label, which indicates that a product’s packaging has been made entirely or mostly of biobased materials.

Calorie listing will be required of restaurants and vending machines with 20 or more locations.

Calorie labeling will be required of restaurants and vending machines with 20 or more operations.

No Small Thing: the benefits of nanotechnology are great-but so are the risks.

If you manufacture a product with phytosterols, beware. A series of recent regulatory developments is giving the health claim a face lift.

FDA noticeably increased its enforcement of food and dietary supplement labeling violations last year.

In case you haven’t noticed, there are a few more players in the certification business for natural and organic beauty products.

The future of GRAS processes and procedures.

Dietary Supplements and China: Supply-Chain Woes. Who's to Blame?

Testing dietary supplements for quality, safety, and efficacy.

A newly proposed Food Chemicals Codex standard aims to help companies verify whether their ingredients are natural.

Its new manufacturing facility, opened last July, has been certified by NSF International for compliance with cGMPs.

The association has certified a milestone 600 natural products and ingredients for both personal care and home care.

Global markets have become increasingly “divided” by certification type, says Organic Monitor.

A newly published Food and Drug Law Institute monograph is designed to advise on developing and substantiating health claims for dietary supplements and foods.