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Certified for Sport App Helps Find Safer Supplements
NSF International (Michigan), a global public health and safety organization, released its newly designed Certified for Sport app and website to help protect athletes and consumers from potentially harmful ingredients and athletic banned substances in dietary supplements. The app features enhanced search capabilities, side-by-side product comparisons and a UPC barcode scanner to find Certified for ...
The Daily Wellness Company Launches TruTag On-dose Identity Solution
TruTag Technologies (Kapolei, HI), a security and technology solution provider, announced that The Daily Wellness Company (Honolulu, HI) has launched the TruTag dosage-level product identity technology into its products in the United States, starting with its top-selling product, FertilityBlend for Women. TruTag Technologies improves the safety, traceability, and authenticity of pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals with its ...
Senator Hatch Announces Retirement
On January 2, the longest-serving Senate Republican, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah announced that he would not seek re-election for an eighth term. Sen. Hatch, who formed and led the Dietary Supplement Caucus in the Senate, co-authored the landmark legislation that established a rational framework for regulating dietary supplements, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education ...
Supplement Industry and Anti-Doping Agency Warn Consumers on SARMs
The dietary supplement industry’s leading trade associations and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) have joined in support of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent actions to protect consumers from body-building products containing selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) illegally marketed as dietary supplements. SARMs are dangerous and illegal, and they pose an immediate risk ...
NPA Responds to Findings of Study on Cancer Risk Among Smokers Taking Vitamin B Supplements
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has rejected a study by researchers blaming vitamin B use by male smokers for an increased risk of cancer. Dan Fabricant, PhD, president and CEO of NPA pointed to environmental factors and tobacco use as the more likely cause for increased cancer risk. Fabricant is a former head of the ...
FDA Delays Rolling Out New Nutrition Facts Label
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) delayed indefinitely implementation of a new nutrition facts label that would enlarge calorie counts, itemize added sugar and bring serving sizes in line with actual average portions, according to Reuters. The rule, which had been championed by former first lady Michelle Obama, had been scheduled to go into ...
FDA Takes Action Against 14 Companies For Selling Illegal Cancer Treatments
On April 25, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted warning letters addressed to 14 U.S.-based companies illegally selling more than 65 products that fraudulently claim to prevent, diagnose, treat or cure cancer. The products are marketed and sold without FDA approval, most commonly on websites and social media platforms. “Consumers should not use ...
James May, “Father of Stevia,” Dies at 80
James A. May, the founder and CEO of Gilbert, AZ-based Wisdom Natural Brands, died from heart complications at the age of 80. May, whose company makes SweetLeaf Stevia Sweetener, is known globally as the Father of Stevia. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to the natural and organic sweetener industry, including being the first to ...
FDA Issues Guidance on Nutrition Facts and Serving Size Labeling
On January 4, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two draft guidance documents related to the final rules on Nutrition Facts labeling and Serving Sizes to help industry comply with those rules. The first draft guidance answers questions related to compliance, labeling of added sugars, rounding as it relates to the declaration of ...
NPA Announces Natural Products Day 2017
As part of the effort to capitalize on the opportunities the incoming Congress presents for the natural products industry and the millions of American consumers using its products, The Natural Products Association (NPA) announced that it will host the 20th Annual Natural Products Day on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 in Washington, D.C. “A new Congress ...
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