Michael McGuffin
Nutritional Supplements Access Preserved in Arizona
A proposal that would have drastically limited access to safe, legal and popular products for Arizonans was changed recently with the help of the Natural Products Association (NPA) and the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), who worked with the Arizona Board of Pharmacy and other state policymakers on the issue. The proposal under consideration would have ...
AHPA Presents Overview of Regulatory Landscape for Botanical Raw Materials
AHPA President Michael McGuffin presented an overview of U.S. regulations for botanical raw materials at the 2016 Korea-China Joint International Phytonutrient Symposium organized jointly by the Korean Society of Food Science and Technology (KoSFoST) and the Chinese Nutrition Society and held on October 27 in Seoul, Korea. This year’s symposium focused on sustainable cultivation of ...
Wilson Lau to Chair AHPA Board of Trustees
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) Executive Committee has appointed Wilson Lau as chair of the AHPA Board of Trustees until March 2017. Lau is the vice president of sales at nuherbs Company and has served on the AHPA board since 2008. He is also chair of AHPA’s Tea and Infusion Products Committee. “AHPA appreciates ...
Industry Urges FDA to Define “Natural”
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) encouraging the agency to establish, through rulemaking, a regulatory definition for the term “natural” (and possibly other terms, such as “100% natural” and “made with natural [named ingredient(s)]”) for the labeling of human food products, and other products regulated by ...
Senator Blumenthal Withdraws Amendment to Limit Military Access to Supplements
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) withdrew his amendment to the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would require supplements sold on military bases to be verified by a third-party amid strong opposition by the supplement industry. Enacted on an annual basis by Congress, NDAA legislation establishes budget and policy parameters for the Department of ...
AHPA Appoints Chair of Sports Nutrition Committee
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) appointed Dr. Robert Wildman, chief science officer at Post Active Nutrition Brands (Fort Worth, TX), as the new chair of the Sports Nutrition Committee during a meeting at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, CA, in March. Wildman succeeds Ray Jaglowski, vice president of technical and regulatory at Twinlab ...
VR Expo West Coverage
Expo West will be held on March 9-13, 2016 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Make sure to stay tuned to Vitamin Retailer’s Twitter and Facebook feeds for live updates during the show! Expo West will feature education sessions, workshops and events, including a presentation by Jason Sapsin and Ivan Wasserman “What is ‘Natural’: Dissecting Public Commentary to the ...
Frontline Segment: Skewed & Misleading, AHPA Says
A segment aired on January 19 on PBS’ Frontline presented dietary supplements as inherently unsafe by misrepresenting the rigorous safety provisions established for these products under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, the strict liability statute under which supplements are regulated. The segment, titled “Supplements and Safety,” relied on anecdotal reports of noncompliant products ...
AHPA Provides Suggestion to Mandatory Product Registration
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) Board of Trustees adopted a motion on November 3 to oppose the establishment of a mandatory requirement for dietary supplements to be registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a stand-alone approach to improving informed consumer access to a wide variety of safe dietary supplement products. AHPA ...
AHPA President Responds to AG Letter to FDA
American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) President Michael McGuffin issued the following statement in response to the New York and Indiana Attorneys General May 26 letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA): “AHPA and its members support the New York and Indiana attorneys general expressed call for more resources to strengthen enforcement of the numerous ...
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