Dietary Supplement Health

CRN: Progress being made on MPL provisions in fees bill

04-Aug-2022 By Hank Schultz

Significant progress is being made on a mandatory product listing requirement that the industry can live with, CRN asserts.

Supplements now a health category of its own, according to analysis of searches on health websites

07-Dec-2021 By Hank Schultz

A recent survey by a native advertising firm shows that dietary supplements as a category has broken into the top health topic searches in 2021.

ProbioTech’s citizen petition calls for probiotic suppository to be included in supplement definition

28-Apr-2016 By Adi Menayang

The FDA defines supplements as something ingested. ProbioTech is petitioning an amendment to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act 1994 (DSHEA) to ensure that suppositories are included in the definition as well.

Guest article

Goin’ Back in Time with DSHEA

27-Oct-2014 By Steve Mister, president and CEO for the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN)

It’s 1994 all over again—The Lion King just came out; everyone is talking about the Nancy Kerrigan incident, and the police are chasing O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco down the L.A. freeway. Meanwhile, back in Washington, Congress is crafting legislation...

Torch passed in Senate during NPA lobbying day

10-Apr-2014 By Hank Schultz in Washington, DC

The Natural Products Association lobbying day began with an address from a new advocate for the industry and ended with remarks from one of the industry’s oldest champions.

NPA seeks input on message to countervail negative media reports on supplements

06-Feb-2014 By Hank Schultz

Recent negative reports about the safety and efficacy of dietary supplements aren’t just a black eye on the industry.  They represent a groundswell of public sentiment that could lead to the significant alteration of the Dietary Supplement Health and...

NPA slams ‘needlessly scary’ Archives of Internal Medicine commentary

16-Jul-2012 By Stephen DANIELLS

A commentary in the American Medical Association’s journal the Archives of Internal Medicine may needlessly scare people into not taking products they use to support their health, says the Natural Products Association (NPA).

Industry prepares for battle at hidden steroid hearing

29-Sep-2009 By Guy Montague-Jones

Supplement industry stalwarts and critics are preparing to trade blows today at a senate committee hearing on hidden steroids in body building products.

Supplements and DSHEA under mass attack

15-May-2009 By Lorraine Heller

The US dietary supplement industry is facing a massive media onslaught after recent recalls of harmful products have placed the sector and the law that regulates it under the spotlight.

Marion Nestle slams supplement scene

12-May-2009

A sharp article by renowned nutrition professor Marion Nestle states in no uncertain terms that the world of dietary supplements takes no heed of science or safety.

NPA defends supplements from recent steroid accusations

09-Jan-2009 By Lorraine Heller

The general public should not be misled to believe that supplement products are dangerous or illegal by athletes’ uninformed usage of the products, and by irresponsible media coverage, according to a US supplements group.

GMPs will weed out unscrupulous companies, say insiders

15-Feb-2005

The introduction of the new Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) may
affect the profits of unprepared supplement makers, but industry
insiders say the costs are justified by the need to make sure all
companies adhere to standards,...

CRN hires lobbying specialists to support legislation

19-Jan-2004

Trade association the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has
hired the prestigious lobbying firm Bergner, Bockorny, Castagnetti
& Hawkins to help it campaign on legislation issues,
increasingly important for the industry.