CRN Daily Supplement

Top items from the Council for Responsible Nutrition's daily member updates. Questions? Contact Gretchen Powers (gpowers@crnusa.org).

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Celebrating women's health this Mother's Day

This Mother's Day, we are honoring all of the moms, mother figures, and wonderful women in our lives. We want to thank them not only for taking care of us, but for also taking care of themselves—79% of women in the U.S. take dietary supplements, and the majority of these women identify maintaining their health as their top motivator for using these products, according to CRN's Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements. For the women most important to us, we're grateful that their health and wellness is important to them.

COVID-19 Update

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has made the first quarter of 2020 anything but business-as-usual. When it comes to serving you and our industry, CRN’s commitment is stronger than ever. CRN's Jim Griffiths spoke with Natural Products Insider about the impact on dietary supplement supply chains—let us know how COVID-19 is affecting you.

Congressional Dietary Supplement Caucus briefing spotlights AER data supporting safety of majority of supplement products 

Adverse event reporting (AER) for dietary supplements reveals a wide margin of safety for these products, Dr. Richard Kingston of CRN associate member company SafetyCall International explained during last week's Congressional Dietary Supplement Caucus briefing...

Haiuyen Nguyen reports from NAS workshop, looks ahead to next DGAC session

CRN's #TeamScience member Haiuyen Nguyen attended “Nutrition during pregnancy and lactation: Exploring New Evidence – A workshop” convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine last month in Washington, DC. The workshop presented key science that could have policy implications as the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee (DGAC) evaluates evidence to support its recommendations.