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  • 2011 Contentious Year for Natural Products
    The year was ripe with natural product news. Now, not all the news was "good," but it was certainly interesting. ...More
    November 22, 2011 By Sandy Almendarez
    Posted in Blog
  • Pizza Still Considered a Vegetable in School Lunches
    School lunches with pizza and French fries are still considered to be two servings of vegetables, which means parents better be stocking up on leafy greens at their natural products store. ...More
    November 16, 2011 By Sandy Almendarez
    Posted in Blog
  • Citizens for Health Targets HFCS
    high fructose corn syrup
    While FDA considers a petition to allow a name change for high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)—to “corn sugar"—Citizens for Health (CFH) is taking action. ...More
    November 15, 2011
    Posted in Articles
  • The Consumers' Right to Know
    The State of Ohio agreed it will no longer pursue regulations limiting labeling on organic dairy products. Ohio had attempted to prohibit statements on labels that informed consumers organic dairy products are produced without antibiotics, pesticides or synthetic hormones. ...More
    November 1, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Citizens for Health Fighting HFCS Name Change
    Citizens for Health, a consumer action group, is naming "Food Identity Theft" as misleading advertising and unproven scientific claims made about high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). ...More
    October 27, 2011
    Posted in News
  • FDA Shelving Food Import Re-Examination Fee
    According to FDAImports.com, FDA will not initiate the new food import re-examination fee program until it can resolve some “issues" with the program. ...More
    October 13, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Media Alerts Shoppers to Durbin’s Supplement Bill
    An article in the Chicago Tribune explains the fight between Sen. Durbin’s proposed legislation and the natural product industry. We say the law’s overkill; he says supplements have too much freedom. ...More
    September 13, 2011
    Posted in Blog
  • Politics in the ‘Expensive Health Food’ Study
    The authors of the recent study that found eating healthier costs almost $400 extra per year call for change in American food system. ...More
    August 16, 2011
    Posted in Blog
  • New FDA Guidance May Affect Retail Supplement Sales
    FDA’s recently released new dietary ingredients (NDI) draft guidance could mean supplement manufactures need to remove products from store shelves while they prepare the correct legal documents. ...More
    July 12, 2011 By Sandy Almendarez
    Posted in Blog
  • NPA Asks Members to Contact Congress Re Durbin Bill
    The Natural Products Association (NPA) is urging its more than 1,900 members to ask their legislators to oppose the “Dietary Supplement Labeling Act" recently introduced in Congress by Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.). NPA has made a letter available on its website here that ...More
    July 8, 2011
    Posted in News
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