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Natural Product Industry Associations Hold 2019 Day on the Hill
More than 30 AHPA members and staff participated in the 2019 Day on the Hill, a collaboration between the trade associations for the dietary supplement industry, AHPA, the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), and the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA). The event provided members with an opportunity to engage ...
Industry Trade Organizations Establish Unified Front for Dietary Supplement Lobby Day
Trade organizations representing the dietary supplement industry are joining forces for this year’s 2019 Dietary Supplement Day on the Hill, taking place June 12, in Washington D.C. The collaborative effort will honor the 25th anniversary of the law that regulates dietary supplements, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), and the critical mass of support ...
Trade Associations Warn Consumers of Dangerous Substance Illegally Marketed as a Dietary Supplement
The dietary supplement industry sounded the alarm about the dangers of “phenibut,” a substance being illegally marketed in products fraudulently labeled as dietary supplements. Developed and used as a drug in the former Soviet Union for its supposed brain-enhancing properties, phenibut is not approved as a drug in the United States, nor does it meet ...
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 ...
Dietary Supplement Caucus Briefing Shines Light on Nutritional Intakes of U.S. Adults
“The best way to improve dietary intake is diversification, fortification, and supplementation,” said Regan Bailey, PhD, RD, MPH, associate professor, department of nutrition science, Purdue University, at the 31st Congressional Dietary Supplement Caucus briefing held last week on Capitol Hill. Speaking before an audience of more than 60 Congressional staffers and guests, Bailey discussed dietary ...
Supplements are Elevated to “Office” Status Within FDA
The five trade associations representing the dietary supplement industry welcomed the elevation of the Division of Dietary Supplement Programs (DDSP) to an “Office” status within the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) on December 21, 2015. The groups—the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), the Consumer Healthcare Products Association ...
Dietary Supplement Caucus Briefing Targets Supplement Labeling
An educational briefing held by the Congressional Dietary Supplement Caucus (DSC) in cooperation with leading dietary supplement trade associations provided useful tips to Capitol Hill staffers on reading and understanding supplement labels and regulations. The DSC partnered with the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the ...
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