Responsible Nutrition at the Terranea Resort in Racho Palos Verdes, California. Speakers on the agenda included a variety of supplement industry heavyweights and important government regulators.

When it comes to dietary supplements, it’s like the Wild West, and the bad guys know they don’t have to take the sheriff seriously. Industry and consumer voices are split in their interpretations of a GAO report on how the FDA should regulate dietary supplements. All sides agree that the FDA needs more resources, but [...]

Last fall, supplement industry trade group The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), announced a new initiative, in partnership with the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB), to increase monitoring of advertising for dietary supplements. The stated purpose of the initiative was “to increase consumer confidence in the truth and [...]