Food and Drug Administration
Jarrow Formulas and Delegation Meet With FDA
Jarrow Formulas, Los Angeles, CA, sent a strongly critical letter to FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) then-Acting Director Stephen Ostroff, MD, regarding the misrepresentations about safety of probiotics for use with infants. The FDA’s Deputy Director of CFSAN then invited the company to meet with the agency. A delegation affiliated with Jarrow Formulas, Inc. (JFI), ...
Industry Responds to Oregon AG Lawsuit Against GNC
The natural products industry is responding to a lawsuit filed by Oregon Attorney General (AG) Ellen Rosenblum alleging that supplement retailer GNC (Pittsburgh, PA) violated the state’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act. The lawsuit accuses GNC of selling workout supplements containing picamilon, a prescription drug used to treat neurological conditions. Acting Deputy Director of the Dietary ...
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 ...
DSC Briefs Congressional Staffers On History of DSHEA
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in 1994, congressional staffers learned the history and impact of
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 ...
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