Politicians

Speakers at recent Council for Responsible Nutrition conference noted Trump using executive office authorities to extent no other president has while discussing impact of his tariff-driven trade policies on US industries and complaints challenging his tariff orders the Supreme Court will consider.

In an at times incendiary letter, Republican senators have urged the FDA and HHS to suspend approval of a new generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, citing safety concerns and ongoing federal reviews.

With MAHA, “you don't actually have people who are really smart and understand the bureaucracy and understand the healthcare system to be able to do it in a methodical and efficient way,” says politics and policy commentator Jim VandeHei.

A Senate committee is investigating leadership changes at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the primary focus is vaccine policy, the first hearing suggested the probe could raise questions about FDA independence.

President posts pro-hemp video on Truth platform as FDA maintains policy that cannabis and hemp are unlawful for use in supplements and food because both types of botanicals have been approved for use as drug ingredients in the US.

Agency following what Commissioner Martin Makary says is President Trump’s instruction to “do what's medically right, to go bold and not worry about the corporations and the lobbyists.”

With the potentially catastrophic impact of the EU’s Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive continuing to loom large for the off-patent sector, industry representatives have welcomed an intervention by French and German leaders calling on policymakers to simplify the legislation’s requirements.

MAHA meeting announcement followed reports that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. planned in September to release report on potential link to autism from pregnant women’s use of OTC acetaminophen.

A survey asks FDA staff to disclose whether DEI policies caused discrimination or resulted in disciplinary action against career employees over the past five years, but uses a web form that the general public also can access.

Chinese API exports to US fell 24% year-on-year to $255m in May, when US and China called a truce in a previously escalating trade war.

Dietary Supplement Caucus e-launched the 119th Congress with Utah Republican House member Mike Kennedy and Texas Democrat member Marc Veasey as co-chairs and with a total of nine senators and 20 House members spanning both parties.

As firms in OTC drug, dietary supplement and personal care/beauty sectors reported results for January-March period after Trump announced reciprocal tariffs, they buckled up for more changes in the president’s thinking likely to affect consumer spending as well as their costs.