dietary supplements
Video: Interview with Adam Ackerman, BioBottles USA
Adam Ackerman, Co-founder & CMO, BioBottles USA, met with Vitamin Retailer to discuss the company’s unique product, industry demand for sustainable packaging solutions and more. For more information, visit www.biobottlesusa.com.
Video: Interview with Tim Prince, Diem Direct
Tim Prince, Chief Sales Executive, Diem Direct, LLC met with Vitamin Retailer to discuss the unique products the company offers, the challenges it faced during the pandemic and more. For more information, visit www.diemdirectllc.com.
CRN Responds to FDA Consumer Update on Bodybuilding Supplements
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has issued a statement in response to a consumer update published yesterday by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), “Caution: Bodybuilding Products Can Be Risky.” Andrea Wong, Ph.D., senior vice president, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, stated, “Illegal steroids and steroid-like substances have no place in the dietary supplement ...
NPA Applauds House Energy & Commerce Committee for Excluding Dietary Supplements from User-fee Reauthorization Legislative Package
On May 4, the United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled its FDA User Fee legislative package, which did not include the “mandatory product listing” concept in its legislation to reauthorize FDA user fees for drugs, biologics and medical devices. “The NPA applauds Chairman Frank Pallone and Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers ...
Durbin, Braun Introduce Legislation to Mandate Product Listings for Dietary Supplements
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced the Dietary Supplement Listing Act of 2022, bipartisan legislation to require dietary supplement manufacturers to list their products with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Dietary Supplement Listing Act of 2022 would require companies to provide FDA with vital information about their products, ...
CRN’s Mister and Falsani to Co-Chair ACI/CRN’s Dietary Supplements Forum
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and the American Conference Institute (ACI) have teamed up once again to deliver the industry’s annual Legal, Regulatory & Compliance Forum on Dietary Supplements (ACI-CRN Dietary Supplements Forum.). This year’s conference will return live and in-person on June 29–30 at the Westin Grand Central hotel in New York City. “It’s such ...
Vibrant Health Celebrates 30 Years in Business
In 2022, Vibrant Health is celebrating its 30th year in business. The company was founded 30 years ago when clinical nutritionist Mark Timon formulated and produced the first bottles of Green Vibrance. In the early 90s, “superfoods,” “greens” and “nutritional supplements” were not common terms among the general U.S. population. The natural products industry was ...
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,” ...
Rhode Island is Latest State to Target Dietary Supplements with Excessive Regulation
Rhode Island’s state legislature is considering legislation that is similar to new rules passed in California and New York that would require all retailers to move safe sand legal nutritional supplements behind the counter, prohibit their sales to people under the age of 18 and levy fines of up to $2,000 for those who do ...
CHPA Applauds Appointment of Cara Welch as ODSP Director
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) Senior Vice President of Dietary Supplements, Duffy MacKay, applauded the recent appointment of Cara Welch, Ph.D., as director of the FDA Office of Dietary Supplement Programs (ODSP). “CHPA congratulates Dr. Welch on her permanent appointment as Director of ODSP,” he said. “This is a tremendous and well-deserved career achievement. ...
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