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2025 Success Toolkit

2025 Challenges & Opportunities

In this special section, find the insights you need to support the health of your business, and the industry overall, in the year ahead.
January 16, 2025
WholeFoods Magazine Contributor
What are the most pressing issues impacting the natural products industry today, and what actions are needed to help sure a healthier future?

Read valuable perspectives from leading industry experts representing CRN, CHPA, Organic & Natural Health, INFRA, SENPA, WIN, GOED, U.S. Hemp Roundtable, ITC + GPA, and MAHO. You'll find the updates, insights, and action steps you need to help support the wellbeing of your business, and the industry overall, in the year ahead.




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2024 Call to Action for the Natural Products Industry

30 years after the passage of DSHEA, what are the most pressing issues facing the industry? Trade associations leaders weigh in.
December 28, 2023
WholeFoods Magazine Contributor

2024 marks the 30th anniversary of  the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). What issues are most pressing right now? Take a look.


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Mushrooms Go Mainstream

Read up on the latest challenges and debates as the functional mushroom category booms.
August 14, 2023
Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

Read up on the latest challenges and debates as the functional mushroom supplement category booms.


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Strategic Planning and a Path to a Sustainable Future

June 30, 2023
Karen Howard, CEO and Executive Director of Organic & Natural Health Association

The Organic & Natural Health Association (O&N Health) has always prioritized strategic planning; our focus lies in identifying the key issues that act as standard bearers within our supply chain. By delving deep into these concerns, we uncover underlying threats and forge new pathways to achieve different outcomes.


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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.


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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).


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More Counterfeit Supplement Products Discovered on Amazon

Fungi Perfecti reported the discovery of multiple unauthorized accounts on Amazon.com selling counterfeit products using the brand name Host Defense Mushrooms.
April 26, 2023
Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

Following news earlier in April that multiple supplements sold on Amazon are impersonating the NOW brand, as well a second prominent industry supplement brand, another report of counterfeit products has been issued. Fungi Perfecti reported the discovery of multiple unauthorized accounts on Amazon.com selling counterfeit products using the brand name Host Defense Mushrooms.


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Counterfeit Products Sold on Amazon Impersonating Prominent Brands

NOW reported that multiple supplements being sold on Amazon are impersonating the NOW brand as well as another prominent industry brand.
April 17, 2023
Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

Multiple supplements sold on Amazon are impersonating the NOW brand, as well as another prominent industry supplement brand. 


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Counterfeit Supplement Concerns at Amazon; NPA Points to SSCI to Protect Consumers

July 25, 2019
WholeFoods Magazine Staff
Washington, DC--The Natural Products Association (NPA) announced that it has offered to be a resource for Amazon after concerns emerged about counterfeit nutritional supplements. The action comes after Amazon warned customers that some Align Probiotic supplements were fake, then later assured that products currently for sale on the Amazon site...
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