Los Angeles, CA—Supplement maker Jarrow Formulas met with regulators at the CFSAN headquarters in September. Jarrow L. Rogovin, president/founder of Jarrow Formulas, Inc., and chair of the board/founder, Jarrow Industries, Inc. (JII), raised several issues, the first regarding an FDA Safety Alert from Dec. 9, 2014. Following the death of...
Washington, D.C.—The American Herbal Products Association's (APHA) Board of Trustees isn't convinced that dietary supplement makers should be required to register their products with the U.S. Food Administration (FDA) "as a stand-alone approach to improving informed consumer access to a wide variety of safe dietary supplement products." On...
Washington, D.C.—The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN)’s Board of Directors has approved the concept for creating a Voluntary Product Registry for Dietary Supplements. If companies embrace such a registry, regulators will have more visibility into the industry, says CRN president and CEO Steve Mister.“We should not hear FDA talk about...
As a child of the sixties growing up in Los Angeles, I remember being mesmerized by the GE Carousel of Progress, an attraction in the heart of Tomorrowland at Disney’s Magic Kingdom. The musical peepshow into our future lured wide-eyed consumers (their impressionable future baby boomers in tow) into...
Bethesda, MD—The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) has been keeping a Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD), and is now wondering whether to expand the resource with additional features and added functionality. According to the Oct. 29 Federal Register, the DSLD currently has 50,000 labels, including information from manufacturers about ingredient...
Fruit d’Or Nutraceuticals of Quebec, Canada, released a scientific dossier devoted to cranberry for industry members. Stephen Lukawski, the firm’s director of global sales and development, believes the dossier, will “help debunk the junk in the cranberry industry and set higher quality standards for both cranberry ingredients and cranberry products.”...
The US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry held its first hearing for the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 (H.R. 1599), on October 21 titled, “Agriculture Biotechnology: A Look at Federal Regulation and Stakeholder Perspectives.” The hearing had two panels, totaling eight witnesses, the first...
In the latest attack on the supplements industry by state attorney generals (AGs), GNC is being sued by Oregon’s AG Ellen Rosenblum, for allegedly selling supplements spiked with unmarked illegal ingredients. The two ingredients at issue are stimulants picamilon and BMPEA (beta-methylphenylethylamine), which were formulated in products such as “Jetfuel...
New data published in PLoS One suggests krill oil consumption may support healthy immune function after exercise. Thirty-seven healthy young men and women took either 2 g/day of krill oil or a placebo for 6 weeks. Exercise and cycling tests were completed and blood samples were taken before and after supplementation at...
New research published in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology by researchers from Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil suggests oral chromium picolinate (CrPic) may help those interested in blood sugar balance. A group of 71 type-2 diabetics took either CrPic (600 μg/day) or a placebo for...
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