Salt Lake City, UT — The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) has appointed former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official Larisa Pavlick to the newly created position of Vice President, Regulatory & Compliance. In this new position, Pavlick will be responsible for overseeing and leading efforts by the association to...
Rockville, MD — Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Revised Draft Guidance for New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) Notifications in August, industry has been working hard to understand how exactly it has changed since 2011, where it has improved and where further revisions should take place. It...
Dana Point, CA—Since officially undertaking the process of designing a product registry in April of this year, the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) finally unveiled its new Supplement Online Wellness Library (OWL), at its annual symposium, The Conference, on Thursday, October 27. As reported previously by WholeFoods, the intention of...
Silver Springs, MD—The U.S. Foods and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a proposed rule for the use of the term “healthy” on human food products and opened the issue up for public comment for 120 days. Under section 403(r)(1)(A) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C), a food...
FDA Releases Draft Guidance for NDI Notification The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a long-awaited revised draft guidance on Aug. 11 seeking to clarify new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications for industry. Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994, manufacturers and distributors must notify FDA at...
New York City, NY—Duffy MacKay, N.D., Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) announced at the American Conference Institute’s 4th Annual Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Forum on Dietary Supplements held on June 28, that the online product registry CRN started developing in April is scheduled to launch at the end of 2016.
