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The Nutritional and Dietary Supplement Law Blog
http://www.nutrisuplaw.com
Dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, functional foods and drinks, cosmetics, and the law.
- Added on: Sep 17th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Joel Rothman
- Listed in: Law & Legal Diet & Nutrition
- Tags: Vitamins dietary supplements fda minerals nutritional supplements ftc
Recent Posts
Drug agencies plays ‘gopher bash’ with steroids
The first paragraph in the New York Times story said it all: “The Drug Enforcement Administration has classified as controlled substances three steroids that are marketed as dietary supplements, but an antidoping official warned that new steroi...
Magazine Ad For Nutritional Supplement Invalidates Patent Claims
Section 102(b) of the U.S. Patent Act prevents an inventor from getting a patent for an invention that was “described in a printed publication in this . . . country . . . more than one year prior to the date of the application” (the “critical d...
No more kicking around the vitamin hustlers
David Frum David Frum recently laid into the nutritional supplement industry with a guest commentary on CNN.com. The resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and one-time special assistant to President George W. Bush lashed out with the c...
Good news, bad news and more bad news on vitamins
Vitamin B6 The headline in the Wall Street Journal read, “New Study Gives B Vitamin a Boost” and the first sentence in the article was, “Bring out the niacin.” It turned out that a vitamin — even only a prescription form...
Google: A line for drug warnings
Two days of hearings before the FDA about search-based advertising for drugs produced one possible solution: fixed warnings for products. Google has proposed that its AdWords could include a hyper-linked line that warns consumers about the potential ...
Supplement advertising could hinge on FDA hearings
Ever since receiving FDA notices about their advertising generated from Google and similar searches, drugmakers have toned down their language and sought clarity on what is allowed. The discussion has ramifications for makers of nutritional supplem...
