Council for Responsible Nutrition
CRN Announces New Board Chair, Executive Officers, and Newly Elected Board Members for 2023
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has announced that Tara Martin, general counsel, Nutrawise/You Theory, will serve as the association’s new board of directors chair beginning in January 2023. Ms. Martin succeeds Barry Ritz, PhD, chief scientific officer and vice president, professional R&D and regulatory affairs, Nestlé Health Science, who has served in the role ...
CRN Refutes NPA’s Comments on its Support of Dietary Supplement Listing Act
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) released a statement saying that it has responded to “false information being propagated on social media and other platforms by the Natural Products Association (NPA) regarding effects of the bi-partisan Dietary Supplement Listing Act, as well as the nature of CRN’s support for the proposal and Sen. Richard Durbin’s ...
CRN Responds to FDA Letter Announcing β-NMN Is Not A Dietary Supplement
On Nov. 11, the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) responded to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) announcement that beta-nicotinamide mononucleotide (β-NMN) is not a legal dietary ingredient. CRN President and CEO Steve Mister issued comments expressing his dismay about the ruling. “CRN is alarmed that, once again, FDA changed its position on whether an ...
CRN Responds to Cholesterol Study That Compares Supplements to Prescription Drug
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has responded to results of the “Supplements, Placebo, or Rosuvastatin (SPORT)” Study. It was presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions Nov. 6 and published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. SPORT, funded by AstraZeneca, the company that markets Rosuvastatin, compared the effect on low-density ...
CRN Reminds Public About World Vitamin D Day
Wednesday, Nov. 2 is World Vitamin D Day and the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) is taking the opportunity to remind the public about the nutrient’s importance in overall health and quality of life. In the recent release of CRN Foundation’s Health Care Savings Report, there is an entire chapter outlining how regular consumption of ...
Marc Rucker Joins CRN As Vice President, Finance & Administration
On Oct. 25, The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) announced the appointment of Marc Rucker as its new vice president, finance and administration. Rucker joins CRN upon the retirement of Sandra Khouri, who will leave the organization on Oct. 31 and has served in this role for more than 10 years. Rucker, a veteran association ...
CRN Disappointed, but Remains Committed to Product Listing for Dietary Supplements
On September 27, the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) said it remains committed to its support of Mandatory Product Listing (MPL) despite the advancement of the drug user fee bill, the FDASLA Act of 2022, without including provisions to increase transparency for dietary supplements. In response to the release of the text of the Continuing ...
NPA Questions Why Dietary Supplements Aren’t Part of New FDA Criteria for “Healthy” Food Labeling
Days after the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, which convened on Wednesday, Sept. 28, for the first time in more than 50 years, concluded that nutrition was an essential part of an approach to health and wellness, the Natural Products Association (NPA) questioned why a proposed rule by the Food and Drug ...
CA Governor Gavin Newsom Vetoes Age-restrictive Legislation for Weight-loss Supplements
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed AB 1341, which would have restricted the sale of weight loss supplements to individuals under the age of 18. The legislation, which was introduced by Assembly member Cristina Garcia and staff last year, would have prohibited retailers from selling the dietary supplements to those without a valid prescription or ...
COSMOS-Mind Study Shows Promise for Multivitamins in Cognition
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) responded to the results of an ancillary study of the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study for the Mind (COSMOS-Mind) study conducted by the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. Andrea ...
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