FDA debars Matthew Hebert, USPlabs co-owner “with primarily responsibilities over product packaging design,” for five years from importing dietary ingredients or other articles of food.
A second former USPLabs LLC executive convicted on felony criminal charges will have to wait before returning to importing dietary ingredients into the US after being released from prison.
The Food and Drug Administration on 29 July published a notice stating that Matthew Hebert, a co-owner of USPlabs...
Three FDA warnings related to supplement manufacturing, labeling or marketing submitted to Amazon or companies selling vitamin, mineral or supplement products on its e-commerce platform since April 2024.
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.”
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.
FDA says “extension affords covered entities the additional time necessary to ensure complete coordination across the supply chain in order to fully implement the final rule’s requirements—ultimately providing FDA and consumers with greater transparency and food safety.”
A US House bill would give the FDA $33.1m more in budget authority than requested by the Trump Administration for fiscal year 2026. The measure was sent to the full House Appropriations committee on a party-line vote.
Results of survey found a majority of representative sample of US voters nationwide agree “current regulations should be updated and strengthened to protect consumers,” CHPA says.
Discussion of the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” campaign at a recent regulatory conference provided a platform for questions about what HHS Secretary Kennedy wants and how he expects to get there.
