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New York Argues Trade Groups Lack Standing To Challenge Age Restrictions On Supplement Sales

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Absent showing members would be harmed, neither CRN nor NPA has standing to challenge or to request emergency hold on law the state’s lawmakers passed and governor signed in October, argue attorneys on staff of New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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New York’s attorney general says industry trade groups haven’t shown their members as well as other dietary supplement firms would be harmed by age restrictions on sales of weight loss and bodybuilding supplements and OTC drugs taking effect in the state in less than three weeks.

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