AHPA Updates

AHPA congratulates the winners of the 2014 AHPA Awards presented to Dr. Bronner’s, Daniel Gagnon, Lyle Craker and VIRGO team members for making substantive, positive contributions to the herbal products industry

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to incrementally issue final rules for the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) between Aug. 30, 2015 and May 31, 2016 to settle a lawsuit brought by the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Center for Environmental Health.

Dr. Maged Sharaf
American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) Chief Science Officer, Maged Sharaf, PhD, was appointed on February 6, 2014 to the board of directors of the International Association for the Advancement of High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC Association). Dr. Sharaf was also appointed chair of the HPTLC Association Advisory Board.

In response to the introduction of the Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act (DASCA) of 2014 by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on February 11, the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), joined the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the Natural Products Association (NPA) and the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) to express support for the bill. The associations issued the following statement:

The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) submitted comments last week that urge the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to significantly modify its July 2013 Proposed Rule implementing the Foreign Supplier Verifications Program  (FSVP) requirements established by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). AHPA also urges FDA to not issue final regulatory language until it has redrafted the proposed language and allowed stakeholders to provide feedback on the revised draft.

The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) submitted comments last week that urge the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to significantly modify its July 2013 Proposed Rule implementing the Foreign Supplier Verifications Program  (FSVP) requirements established by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). AHPA also urges FDA to not issue final regulatory language until it has redrafted the proposed language and allowed stakeholders to provide feedback on the revised draft.

The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) submitted comments last week that urge the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to significantly modify its July 2013 Proposed Rule implementing the Foreign Supplier Verifications Program  (FSVP) requirements established by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). AHPA also urges FDA to not issue final regulatory language until it has redrafted the proposed language and allowed stakeholders to provide feedback on the revised draft

The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) submitted nearly 200 pages of comments and suggested revisions to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to the first two proposed rules issued to implement portions of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

The rules that FDA first proposed on January 16, 2013, would create new regulations for human food manufacturers (Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food) and subject certain farming activities to risk-based standards (Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption).