Feature: Should consumers be turning to food supplements to support their immune systems during the COVID-19 epidemic? HBW Insight speaks to Professor David Richardson, scientific adviser to the Council for Responsible Nutrition UK and Nick Bennett, head of Nutrition at IVC Brunel Healthcare Ltd.
The use of food supplements to boost the body’s immune system to prevent infection with the coronavirus has come under fire in Europe in recent weeks.
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Manufacturers, marketers and other businesses in the industry may be thinking, “Well, this is different” because the president ordered tariffs on a list of countries rather than on his sole first-term target of China.
Tariffs on imports from China and look at eliminating self-affirmed GRAS pathway introduced under Trump while DoJ Consumer Protection Branch also continues supplement sector priorities enduring across administrations.
HHS Secretary Kennedy commends food companies for cooperating, but also says, “We have them on the run now and we are going to win this battle. And four years from now, we're going to have most of these products off the market.”
HHS Secretary Robet F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to announce planned changes as “a major step forward” as part of Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” campaign President Trump has adopted for his administration.
FDA introduced the option because it didn’t have sufficient staff to handle the volume of GRAS submission reviews requested by food and other firms for ingredients. Requiring submissions for all GRAS determinations “would just be an unworkable situation for the food industry if somehow submitting notice, submitting notices for FDA review and concurrence, was required,” says food and drug attorney Federick Stearns.
