Vitamins, Diet and Sports Nutrition

NEW YORK — The Food and Drug Administration is reorganizing its field team within the FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs with a new focus on specific product areas vs. oversight of activities based on geographic regions, Bloomberg reported Monday.

Sports nutrition recovery mixes, protein bars and pre-workout shakes are becoming popular among a consumer well beyond core vein-popping gym rats. As more Americans wrestle with the cost of their health care, they continue to gravitate toward better lifestyle choices. This means these niche products that were at one time only purchased by body builders and serious athletes have become appealing to the mainstream consumer.

NORCROSS, Ga. — Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals  on Thursday created a joint venture with Chinese conglomerate Shanghai Yongyi Biotechnology to be called Yongyi Hi-Tech Nutraceuticals. The company's mission will be to develop nutritional supplements on a global scale.

The partnership represents the first time that the raw material producer and a finished goods manufacturer have joined together to enter this fast-growing market, the companies stated.

WASHINGTON — By a vote of 57 to 42 (with one Senator not voting), the Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Scott Gottlieb, of Connecticut, to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services

OAK BROOK, Ill. — TricorBraun helped disrupt the sports nutrition category with the launch of a "square" Peformix Iridium line of workout supplements. The line featured a packaging upgrade to what was on the market — a square tub vs. the standard industry round tub.

CHICAGO — IM HealthScience submitted clinical data highlighting an advance in the management of functional dyspepsia with FDgard demonstrated unprecedented symptom reduction and rapid relief of FD symptoms in patients in only 24 hours.

FAIRVIEW, N.J. — Elite Lifestyle Cuisine recently introduced a “Forever” line of juice supplements, a line formulated by three-time body building champ and celebrity chef Carlo Filippone.

WASHINGTON — The Natural Products Association commended the U.S. House on Thursday for urging the Institute of Medicine to investigate expanding access to vitamins for low-income mothers and children. The provision is included in the House Agriculture Committee's FY 2017 appropriations bill report.