VSI, MP Q1 Results: Health And Wellness Industry News

AHPA provides snapshot of 20 years of NDI notifications; MusclePharm, Vitamin Shoppe Q1 reports; and supplement recalls.

More than 20 years of new dietary ingredient notification data from the American Herbal Products Association's database reveals that of 931 notifications submitted or resubmitted to FDA between 1995 and 2016, 226, 24%, did not require a substantive response from the agency. AHPA said in a May 4 release that the data corroborate information FDA has on file on the number of NDI notifications submitted since enactment of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act in 1994. Separately, an FDA officials recently said the agency found “no objection” in about a quarter of NDI notifications submitted since 2010. (Also see "FDA Waits For NDI Notifications Increase On Tail Of 'No Objection' Uptick" - HBW Insight, 11 May, 2017.) AHPA's records also show that for 2002-2016, FDA determined that 161, 17%, of NDI notifications submitted were considered incomplete for failing meet regulatory requirements for a notification. AHPA also found the largest number of notifications submitted in one year was 81 in 2007 and the fewest was 33 in 2013.

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