The U.S. Dietary Supplement Market: An Overview Of Issues And Trends

posted on September 20, 2017 16:55

UNPA created a 16-page special section that has been included in the Fall 2017 issue of Asiaceutical Insights, a trade publication published in C...

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PCQI: Frequently Asked Questions

Frank Lampe posted on June 30, 2017 20:17

PCQI FAQs Compiled by UNPA staff FAQ: Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) What is a PCQI: PCQI (Preventive Control Qualified Individual...

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Who’s your PCQI? An introduction to PCQI.

Loren Israelsen posted on June 29, 2017 23:55

By Loren Israelsen, President, United Natural Products Alliance If I were to ask, “Who is your PCQI?” (Preventive Controls Qualifie...

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What the cannabis industry can learn from the natural products business

posted on April 26, 2017 15:18

Marijuana Business Daily By Bart Schaneman. Loren Israelsen feels the cannabis industry's pain. For more than three decades, he...

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2016: The year of the hammer and squeeze

posted on December 23, 2016 20:05

Industry should set a course that strengthens systems, quality and rigor By Loren Israelsen, President, UNPA 2016 felt like the year of hammer blow...

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UNPA brands FDA's finished product focus in NDI guidance as unworkable and unlawful

posted on December 16, 2016 21:07

By Hank Schultz, Dec. 16, 2016 Requiring NDI notifications on almost every new product will create a situation in which few companies will be able ...

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NDI innovation 'pause' looks more like a freeze, UNPA chief says

posted on October 19, 2016 18:55

By Hank Schultz, Oct. 19, 2016 According to UNPA president Loren Israelsen there has been plenty of recent innovation within the dietary supplement...

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NDIs—is everything old new again?

Loren Israelsen posted on October 19, 2016 04:54

By Loren Israelsen, President, United Natural Products Alliance On August 11, 2016, the FDA published its latest revised Draft NDI Guidance, which th...

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Can auditing, certifying and verifying be more streamlined? Yes, says UNPA chief

posted on September 16, 2016 23:07

Israelsen calls the current system inconsistent and redundant. (Nutraingredients-usa.com, Sept. 16, 2016)

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Would FDA’s NDI guidance really cost industry billions of dollars?

posted on September 14, 2016 22:41

A look at the math from UNPA. (Nutritional Outlook, Sept. 14, 2016)

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How FDA’s NDI Guidance Could Paralyze Industry

posted on August 26, 2016 22:28

FDA’s newly released new dietary ingredient (NDI) draft guidance poses plenty of questions for the dietary supplement industry, but no...

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UNPA on the NDI draft guidance: ‘The economic cost to industry could be billions of dollars’

posted on August 22, 2016 22:19

In addition to the areas that require clarification, the dietary supplement industry should look carefully and cautiously at the revised draft guidanc...

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SupplySide West Podcast 6: Controversies With the New GMO Labeling Law

posted on August 03, 2016 16:39

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are a controversial topic, and a recent federal law reignited the issue as well as surfaced heated debates aroun...

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Three Myths About Dietary Supplements … and How Knowing the Right Answers Is Good for Your Integrative Medicine Practice

posted on July 05, 2016 19:19

by Loren Israelsen, President, UNPA, and Frank Lampe, VP, Communications & Industry Relations, UNPA Abstract The use of safe and beneficial...

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NBJ Summit recap: What have we learned?

posted on June 22, 2016 16:26

Loren Israelsen, president of the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA), recaps the 2016 NBJ Summit.

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A wake-up call: UNPA survey shows lack of consumer & market awareness of credible certification seals

posted on April 29, 2016 21:54

Eighty-one percent of responders to a recent UNPA survey think the dietary supplement industry would need a new quality seal if the industry had to mo...

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Tough Talk

posted on March 01, 2016 00:50

By Loren Israelsen, President, UNPA

On the third day of the 2015 NBJ Summit, one featured speaker opened his remarks with something like this: “DSHEA is a stupid law. It should never have passed. It has not helped you, and in fact you blew the one chance you had to show you can be trusted as an industry.”

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Is 2016 The Year The Industry Grows Up?

posted on December 28, 2015 19:09

By Frank Lampe -December 28, 2015 If you consider 1994—the year the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) was passed—as...

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The NY AG has become an expert on supplements, so what next?

posted on October 19, 2015 19:00

By Stephen Daniells, October 19, 2015 The New York Attorney General is now approaching the supplements industry from three directions – comme...

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In Search of Responsible Media

posted on June 09, 2015 17:07

By Frank Lampe, VP, Communications & Industry Relations, UNPA

It’s no secret that the dietary supplement industry continues to be the subject of seemingly endless mainstream media reports about “unregulated” industry; references to “snake oil salesmen”; and “ineffective,” “adulterated” and “unsafe” products, among a host of other transgressions, real or imagined.

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