by Joel Rothman | Aug 29, 2006 | NutriSupLaw
Privacy advocates may have found an unlikely hero in the form of Steve Warshak (pictured left), CEO of embattled Berkley Nutraceuticals. In a 19 page ruling, a federal district court in Ohio has barred the US Government from seizing stored emails in several email...
by Joel Rothman | Jul 13, 2006 | NutriSupLaw
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw jumped the gun when they sued the FDA for declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent the agency from stopping them from publishing a US government study on the effectiveness of SAMe...
by Joel Rothman | Jul 10, 2006 | NutriSupLaw
The FDA has scheduled a public hearing on the regulation of foods being marketed as “functional foods.” According to this Federal Register Notice, the purpose of the hearing is “for the agency to share its current regulatory framework and rationale...
by Joel Rothman | Jun 27, 2006 | NutriSupLaw
Many supplement makers do not need DSHEA, argues Wes Siegner, Esq. of the law firm Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. In this article published at the Natural Products Insider web site, Siegner suggests that many supplement products on the market today could be...
by Joel Rothman | Jun 23, 2006 | NutriSupLaw
Senate bill 3546, the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act, sponsored by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch and Democrat Senators Tom Harkin and Dick Durbin, looks like it is headed for the fast track to passage in Congress, reports this...
by Joel Rothman | Jun 18, 2006 | NutriSupLaw
The wisdom of the FDA ban on ephedra has again been called into question, this time by a double-blind placebo controlled study published in the International Journal of Obesity. The study is entitled “Multinutrient supplement containing ephedra and caffeine...