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Associations Submit Comments on Revised NDI Draft Guidance
Some of the natural product industries’ leading associations, including the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), American Botanical Council (ABC) and Natural Products Association (NPA), recently submitted comments to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to the agency’s revised New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) Draft Guidance. FDA issued on August ...
NPA Supports Lawful Marketing of Vinpocetine
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has submitted comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to the agency’s recent actions to ban vinpocetine. FDA is collecting public comments following a Federal Register notice that would effectively ban vinpocetine, a widely used product found in safe and legal dietary supplements. The FDA’s decision ...
NPA Adds 73 New Members in 2016
The Natural Products Association (NPA) brought its total new member count to 73 in 2016, continuing strong and steady membership expansion. NPA added one new retail and nine supply members between August and September. “We are pleased to welcome new members to our team, as we continue to see steady membership growth and expansion in ...
DEA Kratom Change “Toothless” Without Government Enforcement, Says NPA
The Natural Products Association (NPA) recently responded to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) decision to add kratom and mitragynine to its list of schedule I drugs. Dan Fabricant, Ph.D., CEO and executive director of NPA, said, “Kratom has been a public health target for almost five years, and its surging growth in use ...
FDA Releases Revised Draft of NDI Guidance; AHPA Convenes Working Group for Comments
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released revised draft guidance for new dietary ingredients (NDIs) to be published in the Federal Register on Friday, Aug. 12. The revised draft replaces FDA’s 2011 draft. The guidance, “Draft Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications and Related Issues,” is subject to a 60-day comment period. ...
NPA to Meet With Congressional Task Force
Stakeholders will submit comments to the Congressional Task Force that will examine Puerto Rican AO 346 as a result of NPA’s grassroots and government relations efforts. NPA will work directly with the Task Force to provide input on the damaging effects of Administrative Order (AO) by meeting will all eight of its members in the ...
Olympians Embrace Nutritional Supplements
Sports federations and hundreds of individual athletes from around the world have embraced dietary supplements as they headed to Rio for this Summer’s Olympic games. At least 14 Olympic sports federations in the U.S. and around the world have recently signed sponsorship deals with sports nutrition companies, including USA Gymnastics and USA Track & Field, ...
NPA Launches Warning Letter Database for Member Companies
The Natural Products Association (NPA), the largest trade association for the dietary supplement industry, is announcing the launch of its highly anticipated warning letter database. This database will be a free online tool for NPA members to view violations against the dietary supplement good manufacturing practices (GMPs), which are deemed as ‘technical adulterations’ by the ...
Senate Agriculture Committee Reaches Agreement on GMO Labeling
A bipartisan agreement was reached by the Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee Pat Roberts and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow to create a national standard for labeling GMO foods. The proposed legislation will be a solution to the state-by-state labeling patchwork, providing a federal standard that preempts state-by-state GMO labeling laws. This prevents states or ...
Grassroots Network Defeats Attempts to Limit Access to Supplements Among Military Personnel
As part of a major victory for consumers, the Natural Products Association (NPA) prevented the introduction of an amendment to the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would limit access to safe and legal dietary supplements for the men and women of our armed services. “The Natural Products Association refuses to allow Congress to ...
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