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Poison pills

We welcome GMPs for what they'll do for consumer confidence. At the same time, we surely need to do a better job as an industry to get this news out to mainstream consumers.

Poison pills

By Todd Runestad

We welcome GMPs for what they'll do for consumer confidence. At the same time, we surely need to do a better job as an industry to get this news out to consumers.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

By Todd Runestad

The beauty-from-within concept is gaining sway in much of the developed world.

Is resveratrol the fall guy in study with cancer drug?

By Bill Sardi

Not only are research studies about the gene target of resveratrol in question, but the first human study that gained widespread public attention has been halted due to side effects.

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Deceptive claims and children

By Lindsay Moore, PhD

Claims of health benefits for children are highly sensitive

Economic adulteration sullies ingredient sector

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

While it might be tempting to develop products at bare-bones cost, seldom does it work without leading to economic adulteration.

March madness

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

I do hope that the industry will take a deep breath and realise that it may be up to the industry itself to help FDA flush out the fakers from the true movers and shakers.

Masquerading for profit

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

After many years of speculation about athletes like McGwire, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) took a stand at a news conference in December regarding the sale of drugs masquerading as supplements.

Auld Lang Syne to Double Ought Nine

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

You've heard more than enough bad news — slumping economy, layoffs, flat is the new up. I can go on, but I would rather focus on the good news.

Message on a bottle: FDA's draft guidance on liquid dietary supplements

By Ivan Wasserman

On December 4, 2009, FDA released "Guidance for Industry: Factors that Distinguish Liquid Dietary Supplements from Beverages, Considerations Regarding Novel Ingredients, and Labeling for Beverages and Other Conventional Foods.

Is nano a no-no?

By Kantha Shelke

The very characteristics that promise exciting new possibilities also create unique and unpredictable risks for human health and the environment.

What is old is new again

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

Dietary supplement breaks drugmaker's heart

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

Niacin-based drug Niaspan outperformed not one, but two, leading cholesterol-lowering drugs &#8212; Merck's Zetia and sister drug Vytorin.

Functional ingredients defy odds

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

GMPs are upon us, though not everyone gets it yet.

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2009 US Nutrition Industry Overview issue

Dietary-supplement sales grew from 5.8 per cent 6.3 per cent in 2008, shattering the prediction by some that consumers' falling disposable income would drown dietary-supplement sales. Overall, there were $102 billion in nutrition-industry consumer sales last year, the magazine reports. Growth slowed in categories other than dietary supplements, but remained positive nonetheless.
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