The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced a final rule establishing regulations to require current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) for dietary supplements. The rule ensures that dietary supplements are produced in a quality manner, do not contain contaminants or impurities, and are accurately labeled.

"This rule helps to ensure the quality of dietary supplements so that consumers can be confident that the products they purchase contain what is on the label," said Commissioner of Food and Drugs Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D. "In addition, as a result of recent amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, by the end of the year, industry will be required to report all serious dietary supplement related adverse events to FDA."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced a final rule establishing regulations to require current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) for dietary supplements. The rule ensures that dietary supplements are produced in a quality manner, do not contain contaminants or impurities, and are accurately labeled.

"This rule helps to ensure the quality of dietary supplements so that consumers can be confident that the products they purchase contain what is on the label," said Commissioner of Food and Drugs Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D. "In addition, as a result of recent amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, by the end of the year, industry will be required to report all serious dietary supplement related adverse events to FDA."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced a final rule establishing regulations to require current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) for dietary supplements. The rule ensures that dietary supplements are produced in a quality manner, do not contain contaminants or impurities, and are accurately labeled.

"This rule helps to ensure the quality of dietary supplements so that consumers can be confident that the products they purchase contain what is on the label," said Commissioner of Food and Drugs Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D. "In addition, as a result of recent amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, by the end of the year, industry will be required to report all serious dietary supplement related adverse events to FDA."

Here's a round up of some recent news stories on nutrition, health, wellness, exercise and all the rest. There's a lot out there! -

State meet may be Dragland's final gymnastics competition
Seattle Post Intelligencer - It's hard to imagine Carrie Dragland topping her 2006 performance at the 4A state gymnastics meet this weekend at the Tacoma Dome. Dragland, a senior at Bothell High School, last year won individual titles in the bar, vault and floor exercise and set

Women's Sports Injuries: It's Not Just The Hormones
Medical News Today - There is a common misconception that a woman protects herself from osteoporosis only by engaging in weight bearing exercise. Dr. Templeton encourages her patients to participate in weight-bearing exercise and to lift weights but cautions that

Mayor Sues Recall Drive Leader
Ledger - The suit said the recall petition "does nothing more than attack Plantiff's exercise of his official duties as an elected municipal official or attack the exercise of the official duties of the Frostproof City Council as a whole." The suit also seeks

Two hurt in earlier city fire exercise
Baltimore Sun - The day before a fire cadet died in a live-fire training exercise in a city rowhouse, another cadet and a fire lieutenant were injured in a similar controlled burn in East Baltimore, fire officials acknowledged yesterday. It took several days for the

Nuclear power plan defeated in court challenge
Daily Telegraph - Alistair Darling, the Trade and Industry Secretary, immediately accepted the court ruling and promised a fresh consultation exercise even though he made it clear that the Government still backed nuclear power. Another round of consultations will mean

Retired cop to walk new beat: Stay-at-home dad
Chicago Sun-Times - The clubhouse features an aerobics studio, exercise room, men's and women's locker rooms, conference room, library, craft room and private movie theater. It is surrounded by additional recreational amenities, such as swimming pools for adults and

Senior Citizens Can Begin Exercise and Reduce Risk of Invasive Breast
Senior Journal - Feb. 15, 2007 It makes no difference how old you are, researchers say six or more hours per week of strenuous recreational activity may reduce the risks of invasive breast cancer by 23 percent. Their report in the February issue of Cancer

Exercise can be beneficial for people with breast cancer
SAWF News Connect - Washington, Feb 16: Group exercise sessions can help to improve the physical and psychological well being of people diagnosed with breast cancer, a new BMJ study has revealed. Breast cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer among women in the UK

Senior Bulletin Board
Berkshire Eagle - Tuesday: 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m. Healthy Osteo exercise class; 1 p.m. Oil painting class. Wednesday: 1 p.m. TRIAD meeting at Dalton VFW. Last day to order from Wild Duck Co-op. Thursday: 10 a.m. Healthy Osteo exercise class; Noon

Less-intense workouts may be less effective
Reuters UK - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Low-intensity endurance exercise is not as effective as moderate intensity endurance exercise for promoting fitness, German researchers found in a controlled study. Low-intensity workout recommendations "might be

Jumps for Joy
Signal - As many as 16 percent of all children have been found to have at least one type of cardiac disease, and much of that is treatable by exercise, diet and a healthy lifestyle, according to American Heart Association statistics. Jumping rope is an

O'Malley Hopes the Numbers Add Up
Washington Post - With a projected budget shortfall next year of $1.3 billion, the O'Malley administration is hoping the exercise will save some money. During O'Malley's seven years in Baltimore, the program saved the city about $350 million, O'Malley spokesman Rick

Peter Goodgold, the President of www.WaterWorks4u.com, a life-long expert in the water industry, author and speaker with extensive knowledge concerning plastic bottling practices, water contamination, water pollution, carcinogens in water, including the now proven toxic use of BPA Bisphenol A that leeches from plastic bottles into human beings, is available for television commentary and newspaper interviews on this subject. (PRWeb Apr 24, 2008)

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The Flow: 40 Days to Total Life Transformation, the new self help/personal growth book by author Tara Meyer-Robson, has been chosen as a finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards. Now in its 10th year, the Awards recognize books that "expand a reader's world, introduce a voice society needs to hear, offer practical knowledge where none existed before or simply entertain so compellingly that all distractions fall away as the reader turns the next page." The Flow: 40 Days to Total Life Transformation has been selected as a finalist in the self help category, and, by being a finalist, is also up for the Editor's Choice Prize for Non-Fiction. (PRWeb Mar 10, 2008)

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