Drug Preclusion Principle

2023 in review: NPA on the need for advocates, battling cancerous policy, FDA's reorg, and more

19-Dec-2023 By Daniel Fabricant, PhD, President & CEO, Natural Products Association

It's become too commonplace and cliché to state that the world is very different now than it was just a few years ago. Heck, 2023 is very different at the end than how it began.

Guest Article

Apple Picking and Drug Preclusion: Let’s Make it a Fair Contest

08-Nov-2023 By Steve Mister, President & CEO, Council for Responsible Nutrition

In this guest article, Steve Mister, President & CEO, Council for Responsible Nutrition, discusses how “surgical amendments to the existing drug preclusion provision” can balance the interests of drugs and supplements and allow innovation in both...

FDA delays response to CRN petition on the drug preclusion clause

03-Nov-2023 By Stephen Daniells

For the second time in two months, the US Food and Drug Administration has declined to respond to a Citizen Petition, citing “competing agency priorities”.

HSA, FSA for supplements: ‘We are about to get the legislation introduced,’ says CRN’s Mister

05-Jul-2023 By Stephen Daniells

The ability for consumers to use pre-tax dollars for healthcare related expenses to purchase dietary supplements may be edging closer as legislation is about to be introduced in Congress to expand eligibility of dietary supplements in HSA and FSA accounts.