Supplement industry news and updates – October 2022

Top 9 supplement industry trends as seen on Natural Products Expo Virtual—video

Watch the recap of the Natural Products Expo East “The State of Supplements: The Future is Here,” session to prepare your company for what’s next based on analysis from experts from Nutrition Business Advisors, Nutrition Business Journal, SPINS and more. Learn where they predict growth—and challenges in the near and long term. Read about it here.

Expo East 2022 Recap SPINS report: The top trends and exciting products 

This year’s show was bigger and proved that Expo East is back in full force as fall’s must-attend event. SPINS reports on 8 emerging trends they saw on the show floor and highlights some of the key live content. Read about it here.

Press Release: PLT Health Solutions will introduce cultivated-sourced Rhodiola Rosea ingredient into the North American market

The cultivation  program – developed by PLT innovation partner Nektium Pharma (Las Palmas, Spain) – is the result of  more than a decade of effort focused on achieving a physical and phytochemical profile identical to  previously supplied wildcrafted material. Read about it here.

California Governor vetoes bill restricting access to weight loss supplement—article

Gov. Gavin Newson nixed what would have been the nation’s first bill to curb sales of the supplements based on age. The bill would have prohibited the sale of weight loss supplements and over-the-counter diet pills to anyone younger than 18 without a prescription. Find out why it matters here.

Trends in FDA warning letters—article

Claims made by brands’ affiliates and influencers may lead to citations, Supplement Advisory Group principal Asa Waldstein says in his quarterly update on enforcement trends. Read how influencers are catching the agency’s attention, increases in anxiety claims enforcement and about how CBD-related warning letters have already jumped by nearly 350% this year. Read more here.

A ray of hope on the road to CBD regulation?—article

Could FDA’s hiring of a veteran cannabis regulator as a senior public health advisor signal a path forward for hemp-based CBD? Learn how, while lawmakers continue to press FDA over its inaction in creating a regulatory framework, its hiring of Norman Birenbaum, the founding president of the Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA), has generated a bit of optimism. Read more here.

COSMOS-Mind Study shows promise for multis in cognition—article

Subjects who took a daily multivitamin experienced a statistically significant benefit to global cognition during the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study for the Mind (COSMOS-Mind). Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association published results of the research, which was funded by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. Read more here.