According to this report from the Carlisle, Pennsylvania newspaper The Sentinel, Boiling Springs High School Student Andrew Figueiredo was suspended from school for taking 3 dietary supplement pills at lunch in the cafeteria. South Middleton School District administrators took the position that Andrew was taking medication without authorization and suspended him for 10 days. Andrew [...]
Excellent article in Today’s New York Times entitled On a Remote Path to Cures about the Peruvian herbal remedy maca, its cultivation, and the marketing of maca as a natural herbal supplement. The principal focus of the piece is Chris Kilham a/k/a “The Medicine Hunter” (pictured right), whose business is “to promote natural, plant-based medicines, [...]
FDA held a 3 hour webcast last week detailing its industry guidance on the new CGMP regulations. The webcast has been archived. To view the webcast at your leisure click here. FDA suggests using Internet Explorer to allow full navigation through the webcast.
Best-selling author Kevin Trudeau has come under fire again for violating an injunction banning him from making infomercials that misrepresent the contents of his latest book entitled “The Weight Loss Cure ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About.” To read the FTC’s brief in support of contempt, click here. If successful, this will be the [...]
Mark A. LeDoux, Chairman and CEO of Natural Alternatives International, Inc. and Chair of The Council for Responsible Nutrition spoke next at the American Conference Institute conference on dietary supplements, nutraceuticals and functional foods on the issue of new GMP rules for dietary supplements. Helpful links from the presentation include FDA’s PowerPoint presentation the proposed [...]
Your blogger is attending (and speaking) at the conference sponsored by American Conference Institute this week on the topic of regulation and other legal issues concerning dietary supplements, nutraceuticals and functional foods. Important topics to be addressed include: Adverse Event Reporting (AER) under the Dietary Supplement and Non-Prescription Drug Consumer Protection Act, Public Law 109-462 [...]
