Dietary Supplements

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.

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.”

Volleyball great Gabby Reece promotes Stemregen Sport; eye care pharma Harrow changes scientific lead; sisters partner to launch Renew-V vaginal moisturizer; Haleon tabs former Unilever executive as chief customer officer; and former Bayer executive leads Perrigo’s expanded scientific office.

AHPA’s significant legislative victories included enactment of Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act in 2006 to establish a serious adverse event reporting law for vitamin, mineral and supplement products.

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.

Vitamin, mineral and supplement products “may bear nutrient content claims, including ‘healthy,’’ if they meet structure/function claim criteria “without being subject to the requirements of the ‘healthy nutrient content claim” stated in the final rule FDA published recently.