Major Cosmetic Regulation Update March 27, 2023 - FDA Has Stopped Accepting Submissions to the Voluntary Cosmetic Registration Program FDA issued an update today stating that they are no longer accepting voluntary cosmetic establishment registration and that information in the VCRP will not be transferred [...]
A respected colleague, Marian Boardley, recently published a blog post that is important for anyone in the dietary supplement industry. I’d like to share some highlights with you. Ms. Boardley frequently evaluates FDA data on inspections and shares her insights. In her recent post she shared a table [...]
FDA has been busy in the past few months, publishing several draft guidance documents and proposed rules for food safety—including a proposal that would ban partially hydrogenated oils in foods. They also published updated guidance on cosmetic GMPs but have been relatively quiet about dietary [...]
FDA warning letters continue to provide information that give insight into the level of detail of FDA inspection, which are relatively new to the dietary supplement industry and may help your company avoid problems when your inspection comes up. In a February 9, 2011 letter [...]
Hello! I trust that summer is flying by for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere and I hope that winter is not too harsh for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere. Since dietary supplement companies are now required to comply with FDA’s Good [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]