FDA also imposes import alert on lip balms, hand sanitizers and sunscreens made by Ningbo HuiZe Commodity in Zhejiang, China. Alert subjects products to detention without physical examination at US international ports of entry.

"We will begin TV advertising campaign in July, which we think will really increase awareness of the product and hopefully give a good return on investment on those commercials," says Amphastar president Jason Shandell. Returning recently relaunched product to Walmart,later in 2019 "should be a big boost for us because that was over 35% of sales previously," says CFO William Peters.

Pilot project will launch in 2017, aiming to share data and best practices to control health care costs and create better outcomes.

FDA regulations exempt retailers from compiling supplement adverse event reports, even for products that bear a store brand. Private label firms or contract manufacturers are required to receive AERs linked to those products and to forward reports of serious events to FDA within 15 days.