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When FDA warned Agebox about selling iKids-Growth IGF-1 Support supplements as unapproved drugs, agency along with CDC had for around a month been investigating outbreak of infant botulism linked to ByHeart formula.

“We remain fully committed to the integrated growth strategy that has enabled us to deliver significant growth and value creation, over the better part of the past decade,” says CEO Shailesh Jejurikar as firm reports net sales up 1% in latest quarter.

CRN’s support, a pivot from qualified backing for the previous bill, came after the senator added language to relieve firms of some responsibility around providing all claims for their products to FDA to include public-facing list.

HHS Secretary Kennedy says 2025-2030 guidelines “return us to the basics” and further his “Make America Healthy Again” campaign. CSPI says update “should have been based on high-quality scientific evidence, not trends, industry interests, or shifting cultural ‘wellness’ narratives.”

CRN’s attorneys ask Second Circuit for en banc review of a three-judge panel’s denial of its appeal of 2024 decision in district court rejecting motion for preliminary injunction against enforcement of New York state law age-restricting sales of weight loss and muscle building supplements.

Lawmakers in IL, MA and NJ as well as MI consider proposals as firms marketing weight loss and bodybuilding supplements in New York already are subject to first-ever state law limiting sales of products to consumers 18 and older.

Canadian firm states in 2026 forecast that its research, including consumer surveys and sales data, shows a majority of consumers, 65%, are not only familiar with the benefits of prebiotics but also interested in the ingredients, 55%.

Three-judge Second Circuit panel rejects CRN’s argument that New York General Business Law Section 391-oo, effective since April 2024 as first in US to prohibit sales of certain supplements to consumers under 18, violates First Amendment rights of supplement marketers.

Testing network Certified Group names CFO; Brooke Burke a Power Life ambassador; Solarea names CEO; Welch’s appoints first brand, innovation chief; Deshanie Rai recognized as CRN/Radicle Science Trailblazer; first McGuffin award goes to Native Botanicals president.

Regulations likely holding consumer product firms’ attention include the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, SB 54, scheduled to become effective by 2027. “Easily the most significant, extended producer responsibility law ever to pass in the world,” says lobbyist

Studies and surveys “all point to one thing, that consumers don't understand nutrition,” says marketing consultant Stephen McCauley. Registered dieticians, including some with a nutrition specialty, are strong candidates to help health and wellness firms clear up the confusion.

Filing references Second Circuit ruling on New York attorney general’s appeal of lower court’s finding that state’s laws on unauthorized practice of law unfairly limited services by nonprofit providing free legal advice to residents facing debt-collection actions.