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FDA Issues Warning Letters to 7 Dietary Supplement Companies for Drug Claims

Posted on November 21, 2022

On November 17, 2022, FDA posted warning letters to 7 companies for selling different dietary supplements with claims that caused the products to be “drugs” in violation of the Federal

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Senators Unveil Draft Bill with Pathway for CBD

Posted on July 16, 2021

Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) unveiled a lengthy discussion draft titled the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act on July 14. The draft language is

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New Supplemented Foods Framework in Canada

Posted on June 28, 2021

Proposed New Regulatory Framework for Supplemented Foods in Canada

Prepackaged foods marketed in Canada as providing specific physiological or health effects, based on containing one or more added supplemental ingredients,

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New Bipartisan Senate Bill Seeks Movement on CBD

Posted on May 21, 2021

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced S. 1698 on May 19, a bill to allow the use of cannabidiol (CBD) and other hemp

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FDA Issues Final Guidance on Allulose and Solicits Information for Rulemaking on Nutrition Labeling for Sugars That are Metabolized Differently Than Traditional Sugars

Posted on October 19, 2020

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft guidance on April 18, 2019 (as discussed here) for the exclusion of allulose, a monosaccharide used as a sugar

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11th Circuit Rules for Plaintiffs in Class Action Lawsuit Based on Economic Loss From Purchase of ‘Worthless’ Supplements Containing DMBA – an Impermissible NDI

Posted on December 2, 2019

We previously reported on a flurry of FDA enforcement actions in 2015 based on adulteration per se, which followed years of relative inaction in the dietary supplement marketing arena outside

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Trade Associations Send Letter to All Members of Congress Urging Action on CBD in Dietary Supplements

Posted on October 11, 2019

On October 8, the American Herbal Products Association, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, the Council for Responsible Nutrition, and the United Natural Products Alliance – a group of trade associations

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FDA Adds New Ingredients to Dietary Supplement Ingredient Advisory List

Posted on June 28, 2019

On June 25, Frank Yiannis, Deputy Commissioner, Food Policy and Response, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), announced via Twitter that FDA has added octopamine and N-Methyltyramine to the Dietary Supplement

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FDA Allows Allulose to be Excluded From Sugar Declarations

Posted on April 19, 2019

On April 18, 2019, FDA released a draft guidance for industry entitled, “The Declaration of Allulose and Calories from Allulose on Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels.” The guidance

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FDA Announces New Tool to Alert the Public of Unlawful Ingredients in Dietary Supplements

Posted on April 17, 2019

As our readers may remember, earlier this year the FDA announced a plan for modernizing and strengthening dietary supplement regulation and oversight. Under the plan, the FDA stated their

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