Researchers testing OTCs, supplements and cosmetics seek in vitro test alternatives as animal toxicity tests aren’t strong indicators for humans, says consultant John Harbell. At CHPA conference, he says half of drug failures in clinical trials are due to toxicity in humans despite animal tests showing safety.
Toxicity testing with animals still is used for many OTC drug, dietary supplement and cosmetic ingredients even though the results often don’t extrapolate to humans. That failure, says toxicology and product safety consultant John Harbell, is leading industry and US regulators to accelerate their search for testing alternatives.
Speaking during the Consumer Healthcare Products Association’s Regulatory, Scientific & Quality Conference on 1 September, Harbell suggested the drive in...
Green Pharmaceuticals’ SnoreStop Nasal Spray, previously marketed as “NasoSpray,” still is available even though agency officials on multiple occasions for a month recommended a recall after an April inspection found “gross microbial contamination” in one lot.
In this episode of the Over the Counter podcast, HBW Insight speaks to Kerry's RDA senior manager of immune and joint health, Sonja Nodland, about the opportunity for innovation that postbiotics represent for the consumer health industry.
Week after publishing safety alert about OPMS Black Liquid Kratom “linked to serious adverse health effects, including death,” FDA announced market research “to understand and characterize emergent risk/safety and perceived benefits reportedly linked to kratom and psychedelics.” But it withdrew the study 10 days later.
Height of plaintiff attorney’s argument to present evidence which would prompt speculation by a jury was request to parse research by Kenvue’s lead expert, who coordinated the International Consensus Statement on ADHD by the World Federation of ADHD, where he’s president.
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