In this episode, HBW Insight catches up with IQVIA Consumer Health’s vice president of global consulting services, Amit Shukla, to find out how the global consumer healthcare market is performing as it comes out of the pandemic. It’s good news, Shukla reveals, based on the firm’s latest intelligence. The market grew double digits in 2022 and is predicted to expand by 5-6% per year in the future - even faster if some of the innovative switches currently in the pipeline succeed. Shukla points to artificial intelligence, sustainability and popular wellness ingredients as trends to watch that will drive future market growth.

Trademarks are registered and published for opposition with the US Patent and Trademark Office and are published weekly in the agency's Official Gazette.

Color of the toothpaste, which P&G North America oral care chief says is “only one of its kind on the market today,” changes from blue to pink after two minutes of brushing.

European consumers can now buy Futura Medical's Eroxon erectile dysfunction gel without a prescription online, and in person via Belgian pharmacies. Further country launches, supported by advertising and promotional campaigns, remain on track during the coming months, Futura says. However, the US launch, expected for Q1 this year, has been delayed while the firm answers questions posed by the FDA.

Of GMP warnings for OTC hand sanitizers, 114 have been submitted by FDA since pandemic began, with first sent in late April 2020, and another 12 for false COVID-19 claims, with first sent on 1 April. One GMP warning for hand sanitizer product is listed in both 2018 and 2019.

A round-up of consumer health executive moves outside the US, including management changes at Consumer Health Products New Zealand, Shop Apotheke Europe and NutriLeads.

Color of the toothpaste, which P&G North America oral care chief says is “only one of its kind on the market today,” changes from blue to pink after two minutes of brushing.

While other legislative proposals to update US cosmetics regulations would have included FDA ingredient review or codified reviews from the CIR Expert Panel for Cosmetic Ingredient Safety, the Modernization of Cosmetic Regulations Act of 2022 does not. Panelists, industry and FDA reps discussed implications for CIR at the 5-6 March meeting of the group’s independent expert panel.

Personal care and cosmetic product trademark filings compiled from the Official Gazette of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Class 3.

Cosmetic Ingredient Review’s independent expert panel finalized assessments of seven ingredients at the 6-7 March meeting, advanced two tentative safety assessments, and issued three insufficient data announcements. Propolis extract was added to the group’s 2023 priorities list while 2024 priorities remain open to public comment.

John Bailey, independent advisor for colors and cosmetics at EAS Consulting Group and former director of the US FDA's cosmetics office, is checking in with HBW Insight periodically in 2023 to offer his views on developments under the Modernization of Cosmetic Regulations Act of 2022. Here he discusses the FDA's plan to move cosmetics regulation out of CFSAN and into the Office of the Chief Scientist.

COVID-19 threat is abating and control measures easing, but government commitments made at height of pandemic to forearm against future health care emergencies should not be abandoned, says German Advisory Council on Health and Care and the IVD industry.

ChromaDex reports Niagen ingredient sales growth propelled by upfront minimum purchase from Nestlé Health Science; and Mannatech and USANA both reported larger full-year sales dips after ending 2022 in slumps.

Virginia Republican Morgan Griffith has same message for FDA he’s previously stated about hemp ingredients. Agency “has dragged its feet in properly regulating CBD and hemp-derived products on the market, creating confusion about its legal uses,” he says.

Trademarks are registered and published for opposition with the US Patent and Trademark Office and are published weekly in the agency's Official Gazette.

Claiming in a TikTok post that its Recover dietary supplement can “help your immune system fight back” against an unspecified virus landed UK-based Tonic Health in hot water with the country's advertising regulator.

FDA explains thinking in a letter to Inner Mongolia Kingdomway Pharmaceutical after rejecting Chinese firm’s NDI notification for N-acetyl-L-cystein. Prior to its investigation as a drug, NMN wasn’t used in supplements available in US, “except unlawfully without an NDI notification.”

Natural Products Association and Alliance for Natural Health USA petition FDA to reconsider its stance on beta-nicotinamide mononucleotide. Excluding NMN from use in supplements “adversely affects the entire dietary supplement stakeholder community,” petition says.

In this episode, HBW Insight catches up with IQVIA Consumer Health’s vice president of global consulting services, Amit Shukla, to find out how the global consumer healthcare market is performing as it comes out of the pandemic. It’s good news, Shukla reveals, based on the firm’s latest intelligence. The market grew double digits in 2022 and is predicted to expand by 5-6% per year in the future - even faster if some of the innovative switches currently in the pipeline succeed. Shukla points to artificial intelligence, sustainability and popular wellness ingredients as trends to watch that will drive future market growth.

The UK is the first country to allow OTC access to Sanofi's tadalafil-based erectile dysfunction drug Cialis following a successful switch. Approved as a pharmacy medicine, Sanofi will launch Cialis Together in the second half of the year. Cialis will compete against Viatris' sildenafil-based Viagra Connect in the men's sexual health and wellness category, which has seen a proliferation of products in recent months.

A metabolite of CBD inhibits a key enzyme for nicotine metabolism, US researchers have found, potentially allowing nicotine users to wait before feeling the need to inhale more cigarette smoke. CBD “shows promise,” therefore, as a smoking cessation therapy, the study suggests.