Articles by Nicholas Saraceno
Free Hemp-CBD Status Report Updated
To help the herbal products industry understand the evolving regulatory landscape for hemp and hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products, the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has updated its free Hemp-CBD Status Report to include recent actions taken by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The April 2020 revisions to ...
Texas Proposes CBD Legislation
Texas recently released new proposed rules to regulate consumable hemp and CBD products. The new proposal from Texas comes on the heels of a new Virginia law regulating CBD as a food product. The proposal released by the Texas Department of State Health Services would: • Create rules related to the manufacturing, processing and distribution of consumable hemp products ...
Best Formulations to Make/Donate Hand Sanitizers to Aid in COVID-19 Relief
Best Formulations, a California-based supplement contract manufacturer, is stepping up amidst these uncertain times to re-tool machinery and create up to 100,000 sanitizers to donate to those in need in the Los Angeles community in support of COVID-19 relief. The initiative, known to the Best Formulations team as “Project WAWU (We are With You),” is the ...
Rowdy Bars & JDRF Team Up to Benefit Juvenile Diabetes Research
For the month of May, Nevada-based Rowdy Bars will be donating a portion of its online sales to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) to help raise funding and awareness toward the treatment, prevention, and cure of type 1 diabetes. “JDRF has been leading the fight for new therapies and a cure to type 1 diabetes ...
California Retailer Banks on Herbal Expertise
Green’s Nutrition (Stockton, CA) Green’s Nutrition in California has been open for 25 years—Eunice Green, NHD, the store’s sole proprietor—noted that up until 2010, its location was in a 1,000-square-foot space on Waterloo Road in Stockton, CA. At that point, she made the shift to Pacific Avenue in Stockton’s historic Miracle Mile shopping district, a ...
SENPA Reschedules SOHO Healthfest, Cancels Road Shows
SENPA announced a new date for SOHO Healthfest, originally scheduled for May 29-31. SOHO Healthfest will now take place Aug. 14-16, 2020 at the Omni Mandalay at Las Colinas in Dallas, TX. SOHO Healthfest is one of the annual natural products industry trade shows produced by SENPA, a non-profit, membership-based trade association. The exhibition is ...
Virginia Becomes First State to Regulate CBD as a Food Product
Virginia became the first state in the nation to pass legislation regulating CBD as a food product, according to the Natural Products Association (NPA). NPA President and CEO Daniel Fabricant, PhD, offered to meet with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to discuss CBD regulations, and work with his administration to protect consumers. NPA’s letter to Gov. Northam can ...
Oregon Adopts Temporary Rule Prohibiting Unsubstantiated COVID-19 Claims
The Oregon Department of Justice (OR DOJ) has temporarily adopted a rule declaring it “unfair and deceptive” (and thus unlawful) to represent that any product “will prevent, treat, diagnose, mitigate, or cure coronavirus, COVID-19 or a related condition, without first having competent and reliable scientific evidence upon which to base a reasonable belief in the ...
Colorado Governor Orders the Closure of Health Food Stores
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in contravention of guidance from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ordered the closure of health food stores during the COVID-19 public health crisis. Gov. Polis’s order will restrict access to a wide range of essential products sold by health food stores, including, water, electrolytes, nutritional supplements, healthy food options and other health-related ...
NPA Launches Job Board for Member Companies
As millions of Americans across the country face unemployment and economic hardship during the COVID-19 crisis, the Natural Products Association (NPA) launched a new job board offering employment opportunities in the natural products industry. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently declared that supplement retailers and manufacturers are essential businesses. “We want to do ...
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