Hello! Many of our dietary supplement clients have struggled with complying with the Good Manufacturing Practice Regulations FDA wrote the industry. The following link takes you to an article in The Natural Products Insider that discusses the agency’s view and includes a video of Vasilios [...]
I will be speaking at the Nutritional Genomics Conference at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona CA, November 12. What is nutritional genomics? It is the study of the impact of diet on health through gene expression. Just as some genetic markers can indicate a person’s [...]
Everyone is aware of today’s trend towards natural foods. Many manufacturers now substitute refined sugar with other cane products including “evaporated cane juice”. Yesterday the FDA issued a new guidance on labeling foods containing this ingredient. The guidance states that in FDA’s view “evaporated cane juice” [...]
Hello! I received the following email from FDA today and wanted to pass it along to you. Please let me know if you have any questions. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a new way to head off potential cases of foodborne illness – [...]
Hello! You may find the story from FoodNavigation.com that is pasted below interesting. It involves LaneLabs, a supplement company that is under a consent decree due to making false claims on dietary supplement products. The FTC brought a suit against them due to new claims [...]
In an informal conversation with a current FDA staff member I learned that the agency is expecting to issue many more warning letters and to follow up on those warnings much more quickly. Why is this? First, last fall the agency hired hundreds of new [...]