Washington, DC--The natural products industry will present a unified front at the 2019 Dietary Supplement Day on the Hill on June 12 in Washington, D.C. The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), and the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) will...
Washington, D.C. — Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, 83, a friend of the natural products industry and the longest serving GOP senator, announced in a video statement that he will not seek re-election in 2018. “It is a huge loss to have him leaving the Senate. He has been a tireless...
Washington, D.C. — Dietary supplement industry leaders got the chance to go face-to-face with members of the Food and Drug Administration this week and encouraged movement on developing the list of ingredients that can be considered to pre-date the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). Loren Israelsen, president...
Combing through the WholeFoods Magazine archives while writing a tribute to Stanley Jacobson, I hit pay dirt with a statement he made in 1985 during his run for the presidency of the National Nutritional Foods Association (now NPA). “This industry has been largely responsible for turning the health ‘fad’ into...
Washington, DC — FDA’s Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition will meet Oct. 3 from 8am to 5pm to discuss development of a list of pre-DSHEA dietary ingredients. More meeting specifics, including how to register, will be available later this month through a Federal Register Notice and on the FDA...
North Miami Beach, FL — Stanley Jacobson, owner of Country Health Store for 21 years and two-time president of the National Nutritional Foods Association [now NPA], passed on Aug. 7 at age 81. He is survived by his wife of 60 years Debra and his two children Margie and Andrew,...
Scott Gottlieb, M.D. — President Donald Trump’s nominee for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner — publicly confirmed his support and commitment to enforce the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) if he is confirmed as commissioner. “As someone who uses dietary supplements every day, I believe...
Adulteration has been around as long as commerce has been around. This is true for many industries including the commerce of botanical ingredients. Therefore, it behooves the retailer of botanical dietary supplements to understand the issues surrounding adulteration to help assure they are only stocking quality products. According to the...
Salt Lake City, UT—The Senate’s most senior Republican—Utah’s Orrin Hatch—and one of the principle authors of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), may run for his eighth term in the Senate in 2018. According to Politico, unnamed Republican Party operatives are saying that Hatch is seriously considering running,...
The Dietary Supplement Health Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 are federal regulations governing the manufacturing and marketing of dietary supplements, which includes most vitamin retailers. For example, if a retailer sells private label supplements they are responsible for assuring the finished products meet current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs), and that...
