CRN last week officially announced a new self-regulatory initiative to help regulators and retailers identify and evaluate dietary supplements—an industry-wide finished product registry to be launched by the end of the year. The product registry will initially serve the regulatory and retail communities, with the ultimate goal of demonstrating industry accountability to consumers as well. The registry will be developed and managed by a third-party vendor, and CRN plans to announce the results of that search later this spring.

In advance of the official public announcement, CRN President & CEO Steve Mister updated CRN members in an April 6 letter and slide presentation on the Board’s unanimous vote directing staff to go forward with development of the registry. Discussion of a registry has been building for more than a year, with lively discourse at CRN’s annual conference in October of 2015, following the association’s task force, which presented a framework to CRN’s Board after extensive research and discussion.

The development of the product registry does not change the previously announced requirement that CRN members must submit labels to the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements label database starting in 2017, which CRN views as a minimum “civic duty” for responsible companies.

CRN will be developing educational resources, such as webinars, to help companies navigate these new requirements. Read more on CRN’s Members Only website and the top-line report from the March Board of Directors meeting as well as in CRN in the News.

 

 

 

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