Washington, D.C.—The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) is now requiring all member companies to submit product labels to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD). In a statement, CRN said this was "'a first, and necessary, step' toward improving transparency in the...
A new study concludes that taking omega-3 supplements not only supports cognitive health, but can also help to slow cognitive degeneration in older adults. Aimed at tackling the rising prevalence of age-related forms of dementia such Alzheimer’s disease, The Multidomain Alzheimer's Preventive Trial (MAPT) studied omega-3 fatty...
Wausau, WI – Parents may not be able to keep their kids from catching colds, but with the aid of probiotics, they may be able to reduce the number of days children stay sick. In a recent study, UAS LifeSciences’ Up4 Junior probiotic supplement was found to shorten the...
Montreal, Quebec – According to new research coming out of the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting, chondroitin sulfate was more effective in reducing long-term progression of knee osteoarthritis (OA) than celecoxib, a drug commonly accepted as the best treatment in the disease. Knee OA, is a condition in...
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 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...
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...
Palm Springs, CA—Mary K. Engle, associate director for advertising practices in the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), gave supplements marketers a bit more insight into FTC’s current thinking on advertising at the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s The Conference. Engle offered industry members five take-home points...
Some 25,000 industry members came together in Baltimore, MD, for the 30th annual Natural Products Expo East tradeshow and conference. This year’s event boasted 1,363 exhibiting companies, including 400 new brands that launched at the show. Here are four observations from the tradeshow from WholeFoods editors. 1. Upbeat vibe. This...
SupplySide West 2015 CoverageIn a panel discussion about botanical testing methods during SupplySide West, industry experts addressed a top-of-mind issue: DNA testing. Elan Sudberg, CEO of Alkemist Laboratories, noted that DNA-Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is “newer and better than DNA barcoding.” Danica Harbaugh Reynaud, Ph.D., CEO, CSO of Authentechnologies, also...
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