dietary ingredients
White House Announces Tariff Exemptions for Key Dietary Supplement Ingredients
The Trump administration has announced that certain dietary supplement and dietary ingredients have been excluded from the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) announcement on April 2. In the executive order, President Trump provided a list of goods and materials (Annex II) that are classified in the 8-digit subheadings of the HTS that are exempt. Some of ...
CRN Submits Citizen Petition Requesting FDA to Re-interpret Drug Preclusion Clause
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has submitted a Citizen Petition to the FDA requesting that the agency to reconsider its interpretation of the Drug Preclusion Clause. According to the Washington, DC-based trade association, the Clause has been, and will likely continue to be, misapplied to dietary supplement ingredients that FDA has previously acknowledged as ...
Trade Associations Respond to FDA’s Denial of CBD Citizen Petitions
The Natural Products Association (NPA), the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) have responded to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) denial of the associations’ CBD Citizen Petitions on Jan. 26. “This is an astonishing dereliction of duty, especially compared to the agility and professionalism the agency showed ...
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 Dismisses FDA Response on N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC)
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) on March 31 denounced FDA’s decision regarding the legal status of n-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) as a dietary ingredient. “CRN is extremely disappointed and unconvinced by FDA’s response today that it has chosen to deny CRN’s citizen’s petition while holding out the possibility that it may open a rulemaking specific to NAC instead,” ...
FDA and CBD Confusion
For NIE Magazine’s feature article, “Washington and the Natural Industry,” we asked Steve Mister, President and CEO, Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), Washington, D.C., www.crnusa.org the following question: The FDA’s very confusing statements about hemp and CBD have many wondering what is the long-term future for CBD, hemp and other hemp-derived compounds. How should retailers ...
FDA Releases Revised Draft of NDI Guidance; AHPA Convenes Working Group for Comments
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released revised draft guidance for new dietary ingredients (NDIs) to be published in the Federal Register on Friday, Aug. 12. The revised draft replaces FDA’s 2011 draft. The guidance, “Draft Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications and Related Issues,” is subject to a 60-day comment period. ...
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