Articles by Corinne Anderson
NPA Files Suit Against Board Members
On February 4, in a Member Update email from the Natural Products Association (NPA) , Executive Director and CEO Daniel Fabricant addressed membership informing them that action had been taken against the NPA. The email also announced that the NPA filed claims in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against 10 current ...
Garden of Life Raw Meal Recall
Garden of Life LLC is voluntarily withdrawing a limited quantity of its Raw Meal Organic Shake & Meal Chocolate, Original, Vanilla and Vanilla Chai because they have the potential to contain Salmonella Virchow. Even though Garden of Life routinely performs pathogen testing on every finished good lot to ensure safety and no product has ever tested positive ...
FDA: GM Salmon Banned While Labeling Requirements Discussed
The sale of genetically modified (GM) salmon was approved for human consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late last year. However, imports of the fish have been banned momentarily until FDA can determine labeling guidelines. Language in an extensive federal spending bill passed by Congress incited the FDA to enact the ban, ...
Growing Meat Outside a Live Animal
California-based Memphis Meats, which is growing meat outside a live animal (i.e., “cultured meat”), will make its global debut on February 4 in San Francisco. The founders will present to investors at the biotech accelerator Indie Bio, which was created by venture capital firm SOS Ventures. Memphis Meats is already growing real meat in small ...
CBC Retracts Supplement Report
According to CBC News, a news division of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, some Marketplace reports about vitamins and supplements published in November contained incorrect information. This past fall, Marketplace commissioned lab testing for samples of fish oil, vitamin C and protein powder supplements to see if consumers are actually getting what they pay for. Based on those test results, Marketplace reported that Emergen-C ...
Frontline Segment: Skewed & Misleading, AHPA Says
A segment aired on January 19 on PBS’ Frontline presented dietary supplements as inherently unsafe by misrepresenting the rigorous safety provisions established for these products under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, the strict liability statute under which supplements are regulated. The segment, titled “Supplements and Safety,” relied on anecdotal reports of noncompliant products ...
CRN Announces Members Will Submit Product Labels to ODS Label Database
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), a leading trade association for the dietary supplement industry, announced what it called “a first, and necessary, step” toward improving transparency in the supplement industry by requiring all CRN members as a condition of membership submit their supplement product labels to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary ...
California OEHHA Targets Non-Decolorized Aloe Vera
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) on December 4, 2015 added Aloe Vera, non-decolorized whole leaf extract and goldenseal root powder to its list of “chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer” for purposes of the state’s Proposition 65, according to the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA). The action follows ...
Campbell Soup Disclosing Presence of GMOs in its Products
Campbell Soup Company announced its support for the enactment of federal legislation to establish a single mandatory labeling standard for foods derived from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). According to the company’s press release, Campbell believes it is necessary for the federal government to provide a national standard for labeling requirements to better inform consumers about ...
CRN Welcomes New Dietary Guidelines for Americans
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), a trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry, congratulated the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) upon the recent release of the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The Guidelines state an objective to “meet nutritional needs primarily ...
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