AHPA on NCCAM
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
"AHPA requests that a statement about the potential for mislabeling of dietary supplements that contain echinacea, and herbal preparations generally, be removed from the NCCAM website, and that inaccurate statements attributed to you by numerous news media about a recent study on echinacea be corrected," AHPA states in an Oct. 4 communication to NCCAM Director Stephen Straus, MD. The letter addresses Straus' comment: "Preparations of echinacea, like any herb, can be variable - what's on the label may not always be what's in the bottle." The second clause is a "gratuitous criticism of the industry," the trade group says. AHPA also asks NCCAM to clarify recent "erroneous" statements the center made to The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times regarding echinacea dosages. AHPA separately requested that FDA correct statements about supplements in the GMP final rule...