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Supplement Firms Agree To Leave Market After Being Released From FTC Contempt Complaint

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

FTC announces Health Research Laboratories, Whole Body Supplements and their owner, Kramer Duhon, agree to settlement in administrative proceeding opened in November 2020 after federal judge dismissed contempt complaint from 2018 settlement.

• Source: Alamy

Two dietary supplement firms and their owner agreed to a second settlement with the Federal Trade Commission after a federal judge ruled that terms the agency commonly uses to define noncompliant supplement claims were vague and unenforceable as a stipulation in a previous settlement.

The FTC on 16 March announced that Health Research Laboratories, LLC, Whole Body Supplements, LLC, and their owner and officer Kramer Duhon agreed to

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Third-Party ‘Testing, Inspection and Certification’ Cleaning Up Amazon Supplement Market

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

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.

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• By Malcolm Spicer

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.”

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• By Malcolm Spicer

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.

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• By Malcolm Spicer

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Digital Services Deliver Hemp, States Deliver Regulation With Congress Yet To Act

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Four months into session, no bills have been introduced in Congress to authorize FDA to establish a regulatory pathway for the lawful use of hemp ingredients in products other than drugs or propose some other solution to the federal conundrum present since lawmakers in 2018 de-scheduled hemp.

Little Industry Opposition To FDA Plan To Remove Synthetic Dyes, Or Agreement They’re Unsafe

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Dyes and colors which FDA says industries agree should no longer be used aren’t unsafe and are currently used only with the agency’s approval, industry stakeholders say. Center for Science in the Public Interest says the dyes are used “in tens of thousands of foods and beverages that are commonly consumed here in the United States.”

Bayer Study: Self-Care Is Hardest For Those Who Need It Most

 
• By David Ridley

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