Dietary Supplements

“The first time we have a contact with them, if and when someone complains, is not because you're in trouble, but you already have a pre-existing relationship,” says former Maryland state AG Doug Gansler.

“I think the Republican Congress is going to slow down all of what's called progress, for lack of a better word, toward having hemp be accessible to folks in all kinds of forms,” says Doug Gansler, former Maryland state AG and chair of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP’s state AG practice.

President-elect Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS secretary could be a focal point of change for FDA’s approach to Congress.

“Many of our customers have been excited about it and decided to go that way. We just feel like, as gummies sort of take all the press, we might as well do our little part to say, ‘hey, look, there is a different way,’” says Terry Coyle, Vitaquest’s chief innovation officer.

‘World’s first’ from Protein Candy; Island Abbey latest gummies are filled; TopGum high-doses honey; Mate & Me’s him and her “fertility journey”; and Extract Labs offers organic gummy CBD ingredients, products.

Darrin Schellin leads Pharma Tech; PLT expands leadership with Weiss as brand mmanagement head; Tuttle joins ProPharma as CFO; Burgher leads Arbonne marketing, growth; Evvy appoints first medical chief; Vitaquest appoints David Alcaraz quality assurance head; and Lemon Water leadership in transition from founder.

CRN suggestion that FDA prioritize facility inspections on firms which haven’t been cleared in third-party audits apparently has support at agency. But FDA hasn’t been receptive to adjusting its policy on precluding from use as dietary ingredients any substance studied or approved as a drug.

Opill marketer Perrigo builds on marketing collaboration with WNA in partnership with Napheesa Collier; Bucked Up partners with MMA champion and entrepreneur Conor McGregor; and Recover 180 collaborates with NBA players.

“The infant formula business is recovering and we've taken actions to simplify and consumerize our business, but there's a lot more work to do,” says CEO Patrick Lockwood-Taylor as Perrigo’s announced latest results.

Direct seller's going to need more than larger number of distributors to generate sustainable growth, analysts say.