Silver Spring, MD—Nearly $20 million. That's how much the dietary supplement industry will need to spend for initial compliance with the Dietary Supplement Listing Act of 2022, according to a study from the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) that measured the time and associated costs to prepare product listings as...
Washington, D.C.—The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee has released a discussion draft of its legislation to reauthorize FDA user fees for drugs, biologics, and medical devices—and the legislation includes the Durbin-Braun premarket approval concept. The Natural Products Association (NPA) is cautioning that this would be damaging to...
Washington, D.C.—On April 26, 2022, Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced the Dietary Supplement Listing Act of 2022 with the intent of establishing a requirement for mandatory product listing (MPL) for all dietary supplements marketed in the United States. The Natural Products Association (NPA) expressed deep concerns with...
Washington, D.C.—The Dietary Supplement Listing Act of 2022 has been introduced by Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Mike Braun (R-IN) with the intent of establishing a requirement for mandatory product listing (MPL) for all dietary supplements marketed in the United States. The aim of the bill, according to the authors:...
Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), who served in the Senate for seven terms before retiring in 2018, passed away on Saturday, April 23, at the age of 88. The New York Times reported that the cause was complications of a stroke suffered on April 15. The Hatch Foundation shared that Sen.
Washington, D.C.—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in a Constituent Update that it is issuing “Policy Regarding N-acetyl-L-cysteine: Draft Guidance for Industry” to be published on April 22, 2022. FDA said the draft guidance, when finalized, will explain the agency's intent to exercise enforcement discretion with respect to...
In this episode of The Natural View, WholeFoods Magazine VP of Media Heather Wainer talks with Kyle Turk, Director of Government Affairs at the Natural Products Association (NPA), about legislation that would place age restrictions on nutritional supplements. NPA is spearheading grassroots campaigns across the country against these bills—in Rhode...
Washington, D.C.—In July 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent warning letters to seven supplement companies selling products containing N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC), claiming that NAC was not lawful for sale as an ingredient in a dietary supplement because NAC had already been approved as a drug prior (in 1963)...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that its request for a total budget of $8.4 billion as part of the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget. This represents a nearly 34% ($2.1 billion) increase over the agency’s FY 2022 appropriated funding level. The FY23 request covers the period...
The Natural Products Association (NPA) announced that Douglas Kalman, Ph.D., R.D., will be the association’s new Director of Scientific Affairs. Dr. Kalman was most recently the Vice President of Scientific Affairs for Nutrasource, and is currently on Faculty in the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine at Nova...
