Daniel Fabricant
NPA Files For Bankruptcy
The Natural Products Association (NPA), which said it is the largest and oldest U.S. nonprofit dedicated to the natural products industry, filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, citing six straight years of losses and a costly arbitration with a former chief financial officer. CEO and President Daniel Fabricant, PhD said in a filing with the U.S. ...
House of Representatives Instructs FDA to Regulate CBD
Legislation passed the House of Representatives on June 25 that would appropriate $100,000 for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to perform a Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) and set a safe level of CBD for consumers to use each day. The process would follow the same precedent as red yeast rice, which allows a natural product to ...
NPA Asks for Consistent National Standard for Plant-based Food Labeling
The Natural Products Association (NPA) recently urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt a policy of enforcement discretion on standards of identity for products that use dairy names to describe plant-based products such as “soy milk” and “almond milk.” “Plant-based products, as long as they are properly qualified, like almond milk, soy ...
Study Advocates for Risky FMT Procedure Over Probiotic Supplements
A new study published in the medical journal Cell encourages patients to avoid probiotics in favor of a medical procedure that is known to cause adverse events in more than 25 percent of patients. The Natural Products Association (NPA) pointed out the near universal medical consensus that probiotics are safe and effective and questioned why ...
Trump Tariffs Will Impose Financial Burden on Supplement Industry, NPA Warns
The Trump Administration’s proposal to impose tariffs on key ingredients for nutritional supplements and vitamins will cause disproportionate economic harm to U.S. interests and increase costs for small businesses and consumers, the Natural Products Association (NPA) said in a letter to United States Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer. President and CEO of NPA Daniel Fabricant, ...
Natural Industry Primes for Amazon
By Janet Poveromo On June 16, Amazon announced its plan to acquire Whole Foods for $42 a share, in a deal valued at $13.7 billion. Whole Foods’ John Mackey will remain CEO of the grocery store chain and the deal is expected to close in the second half of the year. The news sent shock ...
NPA Supports Lawful Marketing of Vinpocetine
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has submitted comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to the agency’s recent actions to ban vinpocetine. FDA is collecting public comments following a Federal Register notice that would effectively ban vinpocetine, a widely used product found in safe and legal dietary supplements. The FDA’s decision ...
Senate Agriculture Committee Reaches Agreement on GMO Labeling
A bipartisan agreement was reached by the Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee Pat Roberts and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow to create a national standard for labeling GMO foods. The proposed legislation will be a solution to the state-by-state labeling patchwork, providing a federal standard that preempts state-by-state GMO labeling laws. This prevents states or ...
NPA Responds to McCaskill’s Statement on Supplements and Cancer Patients
The Natural Products Association (NPA) responded to comments made by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) regarding the interaction of dietary supplements and natural products in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. The following statement was provided by Daniel Fabricant, CEO and executive director of NPA: “Does Senator McCaskill really want the FDA to do what doctors took an ...
NPA Moves to Capitol Hill
The NPA (Natural Products Association) has officially moved to its new office located at 440 1st St. N.W., Washington, DC. The close proximity to Capitol Hill will allow for NPA to better serve its members by continuing to bolster political and legislative efforts, NPA said. NPA was previously located at Dupont Circle. While the location served ...
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