"Can we maybe as an industry, and I guess the FDA, agree not to overcomplicate the NDI process in the sense that it's actually pretty easy to navigate the process and understand what you have," says Frank Jaksch, Chromadex co-founder and executive chairman. "I want to encourage companies to do the right thing," says Mark LeDoux, founder, CEO and chairman of Natural Alternatives Internationa. "Our firm spent millions of dollars and went through the front door of the FDA. … This is not a difficult process to do the right thing."
For all the complaints and confusion dietary supplement firms express about it, the US Food and Drug Administration's new dietary ingredient notification requirement should not be difficult, say the leaders of Natural Alternatives International Inc. and ChromaDex Inc.
The agency, too, could do more to enforce the requirement even as it complains that more NDI notifications should be...
Des recherches montrent que l’asthme et le diabète de type 2 (DT2) sont liés au-delà du hasard, partageant des facteurs inflammatoires et métaboliques. Cette association souligne l’importance d’une surveillance accrue et d’une prise en charge adaptée pour prévenir les complications chez les patients
Green Pharmaceuticals’ SnoreStop Nasal Spray, previously marketed as “NasoSpray,” still is available even though agency officials on multiple occasions for a month recommended a recall after an April inspection found “gross microbial contamination” in one lot.
Following Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing about FDA’s human food and tobacco programs on 10 September, gap between what the trade groups, committee leadership and the FDA each want more of doesn’t appear to be shrinking.
At one year, TikTok Shop conjures the early days of Amazon, representing the ‘Wild West’ of beauty ecommerce, said co-founders of private label and contract manufacturing company KO-Pack at the IBA Cosmetics Convergence Fall 2024 Virtual Symposium, “The Promise and Pitfalls of TikTok Shop.”
Week after publishing safety alert about OPMS Black Liquid Kratom “linked to serious adverse health effects, including death,” FDA announced market research “to understand and characterize emergent risk/safety and perceived benefits reportedly linked to kratom and psychedelics.” But it withdrew the study 10 days later.
Semi-annual regulatory agenda of non-binding target dates also sets December goal for an NPRM to recognize N-acetyl-L-cysteine as a lawful dietary ingredient. Like IND exemptions rule, item on NAC included for first time in FDA’s list.
In this installment of HBW Insight’s “Inside Regulatory Affairs” series, we hear from Sharee Crumbey and Monica Sharda, regulatory affairs specialists at The Honest Company, about the mounting challenges and rewards of the job.
