Imagine losing years of your life diagnosed with depression, schizophrenia, admitted into psychiatric wards, placed on medications that are heavy enough to put down a horse, and none of it would have happened if doctor #1 had simply advised you to get off gluten? That exact experience is a case study1 and horrifyingly,...
Click to hear podcast The lowly hemp plant is enjoying new found respect. I am not speaking of marijuana. We are considering its cousin hemp. Marijuana is psychoactive, hemp is not. Hemp is a plant that has been used for thousands of years. It has provided fibers, seeds and...
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...
Dana Point, CA—On Thursday, October 27, at the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (CRN) annual symposium, The Conference, the trade group presented some telling results from its 2016 CRN Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements. The results show that among consumers, confidence in the safety, quality and effectiveness of dietary supplements remains high,...
Pittsburgh, PA—As Chinese consumers become more health conscious, and rely more heavily on vitamins and supplements, Chinese companies are looking to cash in on the trend by looking for companies abroad. The country’s vitamins and dietary-supplement market is expected to increase by 53% to $28.7 billion by 2021, according to...
On Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, urged Commissioner Robert Califf, M.D. in a letter, to withdraw the federal register notice for Vinpocetine, a dietary ingredient that has five acknowledgements in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) New Dietary Ingredients Database. According to Hatch’s letter, “the Dietary Supplement...
Washington, D.C.—On October 19, 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced plans to start a Joint Organic Compliance Committee in an effort to support a potential organic equivalency arrangement between the U. S. and Mexico. The arrangement, according to USDA, would allow “organic producers and...
As nationwide programs including My Plate and Fruits & Veggies – More Matters continue to emphasize the importance of a nutritious diet full of fresh fruits and vegetables, the importance of organic and natural foods and supplements continues to be paramount. Although most Americans include a multi-vitamin in their natural...
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...
New Brunswick, NJ—Natreon Inc., the maker of Sensoril ashwagandha, based here, has filed a lawsuit against Ixoreal Biomed Inc., Los Angeles, CA, maker of KSM-66 ashwagandha and its parent company Shri Kartikeya Pharma, Ltd., Hyberadad, India, for false advertising, unfair competition and trade libel, among other counts. The complaint was...
