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IGBA Asks G7 To Consider Access Issues

The International Generic and Biosimilar medicines Association has set out three priority areas that it says should be considered by G7 leaders at the current summit in Alberta, Canada, as part of efforts towards ensuring access to health.

Wellness Firms Targeting GLP-1 Patients’ Dietary Needs Keep Option To Provide Access To Oral Rx

Health and wellness brands and retail chains providing access to prescriptions for compounded GLP-1 drugs, most also offering supplements curated to help meet dietary needs of GLP-1 patients, are offering formulations in oral form as well as injection.

US Consumer Health Sector Vigilant To Avoid Stumbling On Trump’s Tariff Twists And Turns

In remarks at recent investor conference reflecting comments from across the US consumer health sector, Kenvue chief Thibaut Mongon says, “I'm going to state the obvious. The environment is very fluid.”

US FDA Clarifies Success For An NDI Notification Fits Only The Notifier’s Ingredient

Along with two instructional videos, FDA provides fact sheet detailing common problems with NDINs while supplement industry awaits guidance on two hurdles for clearing the NDIN process, providing identity information and evidence of safety for ingredients.

Innovations In US Hemp Market, Like States’ Regulatory Interest, More Than Skin Deep

Market growth and product innovations are continuing as FDA looks to Congress for authorization to establish regulatory pathway agency says it needs to determine whether to allow hemp-derived ingredients in food, dietary supplements and non-drug topicals including cosmetics.

Price To Resolve US Hemp Dilemma Too High In House Appropriators’ FY 2026 FDA Spending Bill

Provisions in bill approved by Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA and Related Agencies Subcommittee aren’t likely to pass largely because they set a price too high for delta-8 THC and other ingredients to meet the definition of hemp as a de-scheduled substance.

US Consumer Health Executive News: Perrigo, SunsolveMD, Godreg, BRC Therapeutics

Winterman moves from AstraZeneca to lead Perrigo supply operations; SunsolveMD fashions a brand ambassador in Elsa Hosk; Former P&G marketing exec Davis-Artis joins Godrej; and Epidiolex developer Wright advises BRC Th

FDA Proposes Requiring Unit-Dose Packaging For Orally Disintegrating OTC Monograph Drugs

Marking most strident use of authorities it received in 2020 as part of an overhaul of monograph system, FDA publishes proposal to shift orally disintegrating formats to individual-dose packaging and a related proposal to minimize firms’ regulatory burden for making delivery format changes potential

Senators’ Questions Stray Far From OMUFA During HELP Committee Hearing On Reauthorization

HELP members state frustration with layoffs at FDA and pose questions about topics from generic drug approvals to OTC switches, and from manufacturing location labeling to whether the federal agencies intrude on US consumers. Still, acting CDER director Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay makes clear the resu

CHPA Survey Shows Consumer Trust In Supplements Strong, Not So Much In Regulation

Results of survey found a majority of representative sample of US voters nationwide agree “current regulations should be updated and strengthened to protect consumers,” CHPA says.

Clarity Requested For Kennedy’s MAHA ‘Chaos’

Discussion of the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” campaign at a recent regulatory conference provided a platform for questions about what HHS Secretary Kennedy wants and how he expects to get there.

US Consumer Health, Beauty Sectors: Expecting Tariff Policy Changes, Buckling Up For The Ride

As firms in OTC drug, dietary supplement and personal care/beauty sectors reported results for January-March period after Trump announced reciprocal tariffs, they buckled up for more changes in the president’s thinking likely to affect consumer spending as well as their costs.