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A commentary in the American Medical Association’s journal the Archives of Internal Medicine may needlessly scare people into not taking products they use to support their health, says the Natural Products Association (NPA).
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has again shown that it will go beyond just sending warning letters for GMP violations after filing an injunction against a NY supplement manufacturer.
The learning curve for GMP compliance is to be expected – just look at other FDA-regulated industries, Michael McGuffin, president The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), told staff for Senator Dick Durbin in a meeting July 13.
DMAA in the dock
Australia’s medicines regulator – the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) - has added DMAA to its Schedule 9 list of prohibited substances and poisons that includes cannabis, salvia divinorum, GHB, heroin, psilocybin and LSD.
USPLabs has challenged the findings of new research on the source of DMAA and alerted the trade to the imminent publication of data it claims “definitively demonstrates” that the much-maligned stimulant is naturally present in the geranium plant.