FDA Guidance Makes Vinpocetine Compliant Despite Ban Proposal β NPA
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
NPA CEO Daniel Fabricant says some vinpocetine product marketers don't realize the ingredient's status as an active moiety of a botanical long used in the food supply, a knowledge gap obscures that FDA is using an extra-regulatory procedure to remove vinpocetine.
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