News Release

OCTOBER 25, 2022 WASHINGTON—The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry, today announced the appointment of Marc Rucker as its new vice president, finance and administration.

OCTOBER 13, 2022 WASHINGTON—The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry, today revealed initial findings from its 2022 Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements.

CRN remains committed to its support of Mandatory Product Listing (MPL) despite the advancement of the drug user fee bill, the FDASLA Act of 2022, without including provisions to increase transparency for dietary supplements.

CRN urged the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, which will convene on Wednesday, Sept. 28, for the first time in more than 50 years, to identify policies that address disparities in nutrition as well as hunger. CRN has previously submitted recommendations to the White House Conference in July to increase nutrition access and today reiterated its earlier calls for attention to better nutrition as well as reducing hunger.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022—Read about results of an ancillary study of the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study for the Mind (COSMOS-Mind) study conducted by the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and published today in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.

AUGUST 31, 2022 — The report, “Supplements to Savings: U.S. Health Care Cost Savings from the Targeted Use of Dietary Supplements, 2022–2030,” estimates only $59 billion in savings are currently being captured, specifies the chronic diseases avoidable with preventive care, and reveals the nine supplements and intake levels needed to realize the additional billions in healthcare savings.