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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 ...
FDA Announces Hire of Top Food and Dietary Supplements Regulator
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the hire of a new leader for its Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), just months after announcing that the center’s current leader, Michael Landa, is set to retire, according to Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS). FDA said as of January 2015, Dr. Susan Mayne ...
FDA: V26 Slimming Coffee Contains Hidden Drug Ingredient
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers not to purchase or use V26 Slimming Coffee, a product promoted and sold for weight loss on various websites and possibly in some retail stores. FDA laboratory analysis confirmed that V26 Slimming Coffee contains sibutramine. Sibutramine is a controlled substance that was removed from the market ...
FDA and NPA Have Same Function According to Fabricant
Citing public health importance in a Time magazine interview, the new head of the Natural Product Association (NPA) Daniel Fabricant said he returned to the industry after serving as regulatory government officer at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when he recognized he could make a difference at his new post. “I started to realize there ...
NPA Adds Another to List of Top Employees
Almost immediately following the hire of Daniel Fabricant, PhD, as CEO, the Natural Products Association (NPA) has brought on Corey Hilmas, MD, PhD, as the new senior vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs. Hilmas served the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for two years as the chief of the Dietary Supplement Regulation Implementation Branch ...
FDA Youth Outreach Campaign A Healthy Hit
Read the Label! Catching the attention of kids and families with its instructive slogan, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Read the Label Youth Outreach Campaign continues to grow strong since its 2007 inception. This comprehensive program from FDA has evolved into a nationwide grassroots initiative, the agency reports, adding how through this hands-on ...
Homeopathy Prevails
Homeopathic medicines are moving steadily into the mainstream: in recent years, best-selling products can be found in Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid. “The U.S. market for homeopathic medicines continues to grow vigorously as consumers and doctors embrace more natural and safer medicine choices,” said Thierry Montfort, president and CEO of Heel Inc. (Albuquerque, NM), ...
The Importance Of GMP Compliance
In essence, the Dietary Supplement Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) Final Rule 21 CFR Part 111, issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) June 2007, requires that the proper controls be in place for dietary supplements during manufacturing, packaging, labeling and holding operations. The move was supposedly in response to concerns about substandard dietary ...
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