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Author:	Marc Ullman	Created:	1/19/2009 11:53 AM
Mr. Ullman speaks frequently on various regulatory matters at various events, including Virgo Publications' Natural Products Industry Supply Side West Trade Shows and the National Nutritional Foods Association's annual MarketPlace Convention. He also manages the FYI Newsletter highlighting legal and regulatory issues concerning the Natural Product Industry. Marc is a partner in New York City based Ullman, Shapiro & Ullman, www.usulaw.com. You can contact him at Marc[at]usulaw.com Please note that blog is not intended to provide or serve as legal advice of any kind, and that the reader should not rely on it for such advice.

If You Subscribe to the LA Times, You Need to Read This

By Marc Ullman on 5/29/2009 10:25 AM

Does any dietary supplement offer any significant health benefit to humans? According to the LA Times, the answer is "No"!

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Energy and Commerce Leaders Release Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 Draft

By Marc Ullman on 5/27/2009 4:48 PM

The working draft of the House version of the Food Safety Legislation has been relaeased. The primary authors of the bill are Chairman Emeterius John D. Dingell, Chairs Henry A. Waxman, Frank Pallone, and Bart Stupak, and Reps. Diana DeGette and Betty Sutton.

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FDA Sends a Flurry of H1N1 Warning Letters . . . . Sort of.

By Marc Ullman on 5/26/2009 11:13 AM

FDA recently send a number of warning letters to websites offering products purporting to be dietary supplements that can cure or prevent the H1N1 virus (swine flu). The way those letters were addressed makes me wonder if the Agency really cares if they get there.

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What's Coming at FDA?

By Marc Ullman on 1/26/2009 4:20 PM

I'm a little concerned about what I found while working on an article trying to predict what dietary supplement regulation might look like under the Obama Administration.

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