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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 ...
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 ...
Supplements are Elevated to “Office” Status Within FDA
The five trade associations representing the dietary supplement industry welcomed the elevation of the Division of Dietary Supplement Programs (DDSP) to an “Office” status within the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) on December 21, 2015. The groups—the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), the Consumer Healthcare Products Association ...
CRN Supports FDA Against Consumer Access to Powdered Caffeine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters to five distributors of pure powdered caffeine because the products are dangerous and present “significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury to consumers,” the FDA said. The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) released a statement supporting the FDA and its decision. “We have been, ...
DOJ Announces Supplement Sweep – CRN, NPA and AHPA Express Support
On Tuesday, Nov. 17, Ben Mizer, principal deputy assistant attorney general for the Civil Division of the DOJ, revealed the government’s plan for a sweep of actions targeting unlawful dietary supplement makers and marketers. “We are here today to explain the critical steps the federal government is taking to stem the tide of unlawful dietary ...
AHPA Joins Coalition Against Proposed Revision to Prop 65
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) joined a coalition of organizations headed by the California Chamber of Commerce and including the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) and the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) to express concerns about California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s (OEHHA’s) proposed revisions to the Proposition ...
NYAG Targets Devil’s Claw Supplements, Industry Responds
On September 9, New York Attorney General (NYAG) Eric Schneiderman sent cease-and-desist letters to 13 companies that sell devil’s claw herbal dietary supplements informing them that their products containing devil’s claw material were tested at the New York Botanical Garden using DNA technology. The results showed that the devil’s claw was a different botanical species ...
New Infographic from CRN: The Dietary Supplement Consumer
Infographic from Council for Responsible Nutrition. See www.crnusa.org/CRNconsumersurvey/2014 for more.
CRN Launches Tool to Help Industry Monitor and Learn From Violations
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) announced a free online tool that compiles FDA Warning Letters sent to dietary supplement companies into a searchable database to help the industry achieve better regulatory compliance. The database can be used to evaluate FDA’s warning letter allegations of good manufacturing practices (GMPs) violations, products making impermissible claims, and products ...
New Survey Reveals High Percentage of U.S. Population Take Dietary Supplements
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) revealed key findings from its 2014 CRN Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements, pointing to a high percentage of usage of, and a high percentage of confidence in, dietary supplements among U.S. adults. The survey, in its 15th consecutive year, found that 68 percent of U.S. adults report taking dietary supplements, ...
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