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Natural Products Industry Members gather in Washington D.C. for Fly-In Day. Courtesy of NPA.

Publisher's Letter

A Day on the Hill

Why do we do we focus on advocacy? To protect Dietary Supplements, our ingredient suppliers and brands, the retailers who sell these products, and the consumers who buy them.

June 28, 2023

Heather Wainer

Natural Products Association (NPA) held its annual Fly-In Day on June 7 to advocate for dietary supplements and the natural products industry.

Assorted Nutritional Supplements and supplement bottles

Dietary Supplements Forum to Focus on FTC Compliance, Counterfeit Supps, Personalized Nutrition, and More

With new areas of concern garnering attention from FDA and FTC, this year’s conference will deliver critical updates on the latest policy, regulatory and business developments for the supplement industry.

May 9, 2023

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and the American Conference Institute (ACI) once again are teaming up for Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Dietary Supplements. Back for the 11th year, this year's event is taking place June 28 – 29, 2023 (in person in NYC, as well as livestreamed).

Regulatory compliance with product claims.

FTC: Nearly 700 Companies Warned Over Product Claims

Marketing companies were advised that they could face civil penalties if their product claims can’t be supported.

April 27, 2023

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

On April 13, FTC put approximately 670 advertisers on notice that they should "avoid deceiving consumers with advertisements that make product claims that cannot be backed up or substantiated."

2023 ACI Advertising Claims Substantiation Forum to Address ESG Claims, Class Action, Data Privacy & More

January 4, 2023

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

Legal developments impacting advertising claims substantiation, correcting unsubstantiated claims, working with influencers...these topics and more will be addressed at the American Conference Institute (ACI)’s 6th Annual Forum on Advertising Claims Substantiation, taking place February 9–10, 2023. The event will be live-streamed as well as in person at New York City...

FTC's New Business Guidance for Marketers & Sellers of Health Products

December 21, 2022

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

For the first time in nearly 25 years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection has revised its business guidance for health products. According to an announcement from FTC, the new Health Products Compliance Guidance represents a "substantial" update to the 1998 guide Dietary Supplements: An Advertising Guide For Industry. In...

4 Kratom Companies Sent FDA Warning Letters

July 6, 2022

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Silver Spring, MD—On June 30, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters, jointly with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to four companies selling kratom products. FDA stated that it has not approved kratom for the treatment or cure of opioid use disorder and withdrawal symptoms. FDA also...

FTC Orders 21 Companies to Stop Making COVID Claims

February 2, 2022

Julia Peterman

FTC has ordered more than 20 marketers to immediately stop making baseless claims that their products and ‘therapies’ can treat or prevent COVID-19, according to a press release. In the cease-and-desist demands, FTC noted that violators could be hit with monetary penalties under the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act passed by...

FTC Is Putting Businesses on Notice About Fake, Misleading Endorsements

October 14, 2021

Julia Peterman

Washington, D.C.—The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent out a Notice of Penalty Offenses warning more than 700 recipients against using fake reviews and other misleading endorsements, according to an FTC statement. Nor is the Notice just an alert: It changes how FTC can penalize businesses that fail to comply.

FDA, FTC Send Warning Letters to 10 Companies over Diabetes Claims

September 9, 2021

Julia Peterman

Washington, D.C.—The FDA and FTC have posted warning letters to 10 companies for illegally selling dietary supplements claiming to cure, treat, mitigate, or prevent diabetes. "More than 34 million Americans— just over 1 in 10 people— are living with diabetes. Dietary supplements that make fraudulent claims to treat diabetes are...

Bloomberg Op-Ed on Supplement Risk Conveniently Ignores Reality

May 10, 2021

Scott Steinford and Scott Steinford, Founder, Trust Transparency Consulting

A recent Op-Ed that appeared in Bloomberg Opinion suggested that FDA’s current caution and risk aversion tied to COVID-19 needed to extend immediately into dietary supplements. Not only is this piece misguided, it propagates numerous falsehoods that we, as the supplements industry, have been trying to debunk for decades. If...