It’s unlikely any industry stakeholder or FDA official expected a bill providing emergency economic relief to consumers, industries and health care services and facilities in response to a pandemic, including extensive support opportunities for small businesses, would be the vehicle that delivers on both of the industry’s congressional wishes. The supplement industry also looks for help in CARES Act.

Companies choosing between CBD options – namely broad- or full-spectrum hemp extracts or CBD isolate – need to appreciate the differences and potential legal implications, attorneys say.

Supplement manufacturers should increase vigilance over supply chains after FDA suspends routine facility inspections and certain requirements of its foreign supplier verification program. Firms should verify even their trusted supplier’s next few certificates of analysis and step-up adverse event monitoring.

It’s unlikely any industry stakeholder or FDA official expected a bill providing emergency economic relief to consumers, industries and health care services and facilities in response to a pandemic, including extensive support opportunities for small businesses, would be the vehicle that delivers on both of the industry’s congressional wishes. The supplement industry also looks for help in CARES Act.

As it recently told Congress it would, FDA reopens docket on “Scientific Data and Information about Products Containing Cannabis or Cannabis-Derived,. "Reopening the comment period will do nothing to protect public health when the FDA is already sitting on a ticking time bomb," says NPA head Daniel Fabricant.

In report to Congress about determining an enforcement discretion policy for CBD-containing non-drug products, FDA described challenges it faces, largely unique in its history, in determining whether hemp-derived ingredients are safe in food, supplements and other products that already are “sold increasingly widely."

Refinancing its debt and reducing its network of stores also expected as drags on 2020 earnings, GNC says. No avoiding the coronavirus pandemic, though, during its earnings briefing; with uncertainty brought on by the pandemic added to other headwinds, it didn’t offer guidance on its 2020 results.

As GSK continues to sell off OTC assets in the wake of its merger with Pfizer, HBW Insight Editors Tom Gallen and David Ridley discuss how this torrent of M&A activity is shaking up the global consumer healthcare market. 

The latest news from Italy's OTC and supplements markets, including the latest sales figures, business deals, product launches, ad regulation and local association activities.

Refinancing its debt and reducing its network of stores also expected as drags on 2020 earnings, GNC says. No avoiding the coronavirus pandemic, though, during its earnings briefing; with uncertainty brought on by the pandemic added to other headwinds, it didn’t offer guidance on its 2020 results.

CHPA’s Regulatory, Scientific & Quality Conference rescheduled for 1-2 September and the Dietary Supplements Regulatory Summit for 16 September. Several spring conferences canceled due to Covid-19 will not be rescheduled, groups say.

Supplement manufacturers should increase vigilance over supply chains after FDA suspends routine facility inspections and certain requirements of its foreign supplier verification program. Firms should verify even their trusted supplier’s next few certificates of analysis and step-up adverse event monitoring.

Refinancing its debt and reducing its network of stores also expected as drags on 2020 earnings, GNC says. No avoiding the coronavirus pandemic, though, during its earnings briefing; with uncertainty brought on by the pandemic added to other headwinds, it didn’t offer guidance on its 2020 results.

Reckitt Benckiser's new CEO Laxman Narasimhan has unveiled a turnaround plan which will see the company's OTC drugs and dietary supplements housed in a separate business to its infant nutrition products. RB is investing £2bn to get back on track after a couple of difficult years.

OTC private label giant said gaining another grocery chain as an infant formula customer was a key sales driver in the 2019 Q4, with nutrition sales up 21% to account for 17% of Americas consumer health sales growth. The firm plans to re-enter the broader VMS space, but infant formula helped its global consumer health net sales reach $1.1bn in the October-December period.

Companies choosing between CBD options – namely broad- or full-spectrum hemp extracts or CBD isolate – need to appreciate the differences and potential legal implications, attorneys say.

"There is no need to litigate the same issue again," says District Judge Louis Stanton in granting most of the joint motions by FTC and New York attorney general to strike Quincy Bioscience's proposed defenses. The judge denied other motions, including whether NY state laws are applicable, saying a trial is needed to weigh the evidence.

Plaintiffs against Florida-based Green Roads used certificates of analysis the company makes freely available to consumers to determine that batches of two of the company’s products contained “significantly” less cannabidiol versus labeled amounts. A Florida federal court rejected the firm’s motion to dismiss, but it is interested in seeing how FDA rulemaking develops.

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

Church & Dwight extends its vitafusion gummy line with supplements for unmet nutrition needs, including skin, immunity, children’s sleep and teen nutrition. The products will launch in broad distribution, following the brand’s recently added Goodness and CBD lines.

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

The Covid-19 pandemic could push food and supplement manufacturers to switch to manufacturing OTC or Rx drugs to help fill public health gaps, says a former deputy director of FDA's Office of Dietary Supplement Programs. Many marketers are well equipped to make OTC drugs, he added in FDLI webinar.

Perrigo was the night's biggest winner at the OTC Marketing Awards 2020, with Teva and The Mentholatum Company also among the firms recognized for outstanding consumer healthcare campaigns.

The latest news from Italy's OTC and supplements markets, including the latest sales figures, business deals, product launches, ad regulation and local association activities.

Council of Better Business Bureaus division, reviewing Pharmavite challenge, found Church & Dwight doesn't support or sufficiently qualify “clinically proven absorption” claims for vitafusion vitamin C and D3 products in a decision that swung on a corollary to an oft-cited standard for consumer health product advertising, that results of tests on separate ingredients are not relevant to claims for products.

UK advertising regulator says an ad catalog retailer claiming a CBD patch could reduce chronic pain, anxiety and diabetes violated advertising codes. The agency says claims including the product penetrated quickly through skin were medicinal and not approved by the UK or EU.

"There is no need to litigate the same issue again," says District Judge Louis Stanton in granting most of the joint motions by FTC and New York attorney general to strike Quincy Bioscience's proposed defenses. The judge denied other motions, including whether NY state laws are applicable, saying a trial is needed to weigh the evidence.