Woonsocket, RI--CVS Pharmacy announced its new "Tested to Be Trusted" program, which will require third-party testing of all vitamins and supplements sold in-store and online to confirm the accuracy of the ingredients listed on the supplement facts panel, as well as to confirm products are free from certain additives and...
Washington, DC--The U.S. organic market topped the $50 billion market for the first time, climbing to an unprecedented $52.5 billion in 2018, according to the 2019 Organic Industry Survey by the Organic Trade Association (OTA). That's a 6.3% increase over 2017. OTA announced in a press release that a new...
Washington, D.C.—The Dietary Supplements Regulatory Summit (DSRS) was an eight-hour look at the foreseeable legal future: probiotic labeling, benchmarking audit standards, the Botanical Safety Consortium, DSHEA and the modernizing thereof, and, of course, CBD. It came up within ten minutes of the summit beginning; Ricardo Carvajal mentioned it in his...
Washington, D.C.--The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has posted warning letters to five manufacturers of homeopathic products for significant violations of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) regulations. “It’s our public health obligation to protect consumers from unsafe products,” FDA Acting Commissioner Ned Sharpless, M.D., said in the...
Washington, D.C.--On May 23, following a rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., supplement and vitamin brand MegaFood will deliver a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calling to ban the use of glyphosate on consumer grade oats. The petition will include over 80,000 signatures. The petition requests EPA to...
Winston-Salem, NC--The DASH diet may reduce the risk of heart failure in people under 75, according to an observational study by researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine, part of Wake Forest Baptist Health. “This research showed that following the DASH diet can reduce the risk of developing heart failure by...
Oakland, CA—A California jury awarded over $2 billion to a couple that developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) after years of using Roundup, the glyphosate-based weed killer produced by Monsanto/Bayer, according to The Guardian. Alva and Alberta Pilliod were each awarded $1 billion, and the jury ordered the company to pay more...
Singapore--The leaves of the Bandicoot Berry (Leea indica), South African leaf (Vernonia amygdalina) and Simpleleaf Chastetree (Vitex trifolia) have been found to be effective in stopping the growth of 7 types of cancer, according to researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS). The study, published in the Journal of...
Washington, D.C., and Beijing, China—China’s finance ministry announced that it will raise tariffs on a range of American goods in retaliation for last week's escalation, according to the New York Times. China currently has tariffs on $60 billion in American goods. Last September, they levied tariffs of 5% to 10%...
Washington, D.C., and Beijing, China—President Donald Trump has raised existing tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25%, effective on all goods that shipped out of China after 12:01 Friday morning. Goods that shipped prior to midnight will be charged the previous 10% rate. Beijing expressed intent to retaliate,...
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