Salt Lake City, UT--The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) and the National Animal Supplement Council (NASC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance the use of nutritional dietary supplements and dosage-form animal health products nationally and internationally, according to a press release. The release states that the agreement...
Washington, D.C.—President Trump is delaying the tariff hike on Chinese goods and hopes to sign a deal soon to end the trade war altogether, according to Reuters. No new deadline for tariff hikes has been set, and no details regarding the deal have yet been released. Reuters reports that this...
Washington, D.C.—FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., released a statement regarding the agency’s new efforts to strengthen regulation of dietary supplements, promising continued focus on safety and availability. The statement was largely positive. “I’ve personally benefited from the use of dietary supplements and, as a physician, recognize the benefits of certain...
Washington, D.C.—Registration is now open for the Dietary Supplements Regulatory Summit (DSRS), taking place Tuesday, May 14, 2019, according to a press release made earlier today. The DSRS is an industry-wide event designed specifically for manufacturers, marketers, and regulators of dietary supplements in the regulatory and quality disciplines. It will...
Salt Lake City, UT—The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) and TraceGains have announced a partnership designed to increase quality, management, and transparency in the global supplement supply chain, according to an UNPA press release made today. TraceGains is the leading provider of supplier compliance and quality management software for the...
Salt Lake City — The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) and Portland, Ore.-based Healthnotes signed a commercial partnership memorandum of understanding to promote Vitature, a software solution for dietary supplement brand holders, contract manufacturers, ingredient suppliers and importers. Vitature is a cloud-based, software-as-a-service compliance platform designed specifically for the dietary supplement industry.
Germany - St. Louis, MO - The U.S. Justice Department has approved Bayer AG's purchase of the Monsanto Company for a reported $66 billion after a two year long quest, according to an article in Bloomberg. The merger was contingent on Bayer selling agricultural businesses and assets worth about $9...
Salt Lake City, UT - The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) has signed memoranda of understanding (MOU) agreements with three single-ingredient trade associations and the Trust Transparency Center (TTC), which serves as the administrative umbrella for the associations, in an effort to continue to promote transparency within the dietary supplement industry.
Washington, D.C. - Late last night, Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., introduced bipartisan legislation that would enable the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to better enforce selective androgen receptor modulators, otherwise known as SARMs. The SARMs Control Act of 2018 builds on the success of the Designer Anabolic...
