Should there be a language standard in Google ads for supplements? Drug marketers may adopt rules given the close scrutiny that the FDA is giving search-generated ads for pharmaceuticals. It may also be time for makers and marketers to set rules what is allowed.
This time, the news report is real. We earlier identified News 13 and News 29 as being faux-TV news Web sites that touted the health benefits of resveratrol and acai. Now, CBS News — the real network — is reporting on what appears to be the same Hollywood-based company, FWM Laboratories, in a national broadcast and an accompanying Web story headlined, “Buyer Beware: Web Supplement Scams.”
The Nutritional and Dietary Supplement Law Blog is pleased as punch to announce that Joel B. Rothman, your faithful editor and publisher, has joined the West Palm Beach office of Arnstein & Lehr LLP as a partner.
As many of our readers know, I devote a substantial portion of my practice to representing dietary supplement companies [...]
The Food & Drug Administration issued on May 1 a consumer warning to stop using Hydroxycut, the heavily marketed weight-loss product. The agency said that “some Hydroxycut products are associated with a number of serious liver injuries” and announced that the maker was recalling all products.
Did the FDA properly react? The warning cited 23 serious [...]
Let the grant writing begin. The National Institutes for Health has been among the big winners in the American Recovery Act, a.k.a. the economic stimulus package. Universities are lining up for $8.2 billion in research grants on a wide range of subjects. Almost any nutrition supplement company interested in conducting research in support of a [...]
Two contributors to this blog, Vincent Annunziata and Hugo Ottolenghi, are participating in Nutracon, March 5-7. They will be at the CANI exhibit on Friday and Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. CANI is located in Hall A, Booth 242.
Annunziata and Ottolenghi will also be at SupplyExpo and Natural Products Expo West, which are occurring [...]
