Consumer

NutriFusion adds development, innovation head; Dymatize adds tennis pro, Olympic medalist Tommy Paul to Squad; Icy Hot sponsors Unrivaled women’s hoops league; WNBA’s Stevens, Evans invest in, promote Mela Vitamins.

“We have made significant strides in finding new ways to return money to consumers, but a fix to our 13(b) authority is badly needed,” says Sam Levine.

Supplement and food product firms have until January 2027 and oral drug product firms have until a year later to stop using Red No. 3, FDA decides in approving 2022 petition filed by public health advocacy groups.

Former FDA commissioners Mark McClellan and Scott Gottlieb, former acting commissioner Janet Woodcock and current commissioner Robert Califf offered advice on successfully implementing reforms and preventing a mass exodus of FDA employees as inklings emerge that the Trump team is already engaged on this front.

Cavazzoni, who led the drugs center four-and-a-half years, decided on her own to retire at this time, sources said. The decision may have been a preemptive move knowing her time as head of CDER would have been limited, or at the very least highly challenging, under the new administration.

FTC seeks comment on three proposals to “strengthen the agency’s tools to curb deceptive earnings claims in industries where they are pervasive: multi-level marketing programs and money-making opportunities.” However, Republican members say they’ll reconsider the proposals as a majority after Trump takes office.

Testing by third-party lab accumulated 35,862 data points from 70 brands and 160 products as a benchmark for the study’s findings. Council for Responsible Nutrition criticized the study as lacking “critical context” and potentially “misleading consumers rather than empowering them.”

National Advertising Division found multiple faults with Oral Essentials’ evidence for claim, including that an in vitro study the firm conducted on “mouse cells is not dispositive of whether the same product would have any adverse effects on humans under real world conditions.”

Hiya has more than 200,000 customers in the direct-to-consumer channel, all using subscriptions ordered on the brand’s website, and plans to expand into online marketplaces and retail chains. The startup “offers a compelling subscription model with attractive margins, profitability, and strong cash flow generation,” says USANA CEO Jim Brown.