Dietary Supplements

The departure data emerged along with a Health and Human Services Department memo describing conceptual plans to consolidate and restructure offices at the FDA and other agencies.

Changes established in West Virginia and proposed in numerous other states gained momentum after Trump was elected to his second term as president and nominated Kennedy to head HHS.

Leann Sims joins AbundaBox as COO; Oura Ring firm appoints CMO.

Ibis Reproductive Health adds Desiree Williams to lead MORE Study; Radicle Science adds Rob Sinnott as senior strategic advisor; Leann Sims joins AbundaBox as COO; former Cannabis Beverage Association president moves to Vertosa; Vegamour expands executive staff with CMO; and Oura Ring firm appoints CMO.

The General Services Administration’s updated list of “assets identified for accelerated disposition” does not include any buildings at the agency’s headquarters in White Oak, MD after its original list of “non-core” government properties for disposal had more than half the buildings on campus.

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.

Stakeholders are pleading for newly confirmed FDA Commissioner Martin Makary to stand up for the agency's high scientific standards and staff as he begins his term.

Sales of Bioventra’s probiotic put inventory at “a critical low” as “parallel rise in unverified listings on third-party marketplaces prompted concern among” customers. DoJ and food and drug industry attorney say counterfeiting remains a problem in supplement sector.

“It's kind of a free for all,” says longtime FDA funding advocate Steven Grossman. FDA knew funding it requested “was totally inadequate to the needs. So, Food Chemical Safety is stuck there with about six or eight other purposes the money could have been used for.

US FDA Commissioner nominee Martin Makary is being embraced by industry, and Senate Democrats, as a more traditional pick than other Trump Administration nominees, but the Make America Healthy Again agenda still is clearly coming to the agency.