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JULY 8, 2025 — CRN and Radicle Science today announced five finalists in the 2025 Annette Dickinson Trailblazer Award.
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JUNE 24, 2025 — Four leading trade associations representing the dietary supplement industry—the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), and United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA)—today announced their collective support for the re-establishment of the bipartisan, bicameral Congressional Dietary Supplement Caucus in the 119th Congress.
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JUNE 13, 2025 — More than 79 dietary supplement industry executives representing member companies of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry, convened in Washington this week for CRN’s annual Day on the Hill—a cornerstone event that promotes direct dialogue between industry leaders and lawmakers.
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JUNE 3, 2025 — The CRN Foundation and the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC) today formally announced their partnership under the CRN Foundation’s Access Initiative, a national effort aimed at increasing access to high-quality dietary supplements and essential nutrition for underserved populations across the country.
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MAY 29, 2025 – CRN has opened registration for its signature events, CONVERGENCE ‘25 with Science in Session, WellComms, and Innovation Exchange. These signature events will take place Oct. 8–10 at the Ritz Carlton, St. Louis, located conveniently 15 minutes from the airport in the Clayton arts district.
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MAY 20, 2025 — The CRN Foundation has updated its Vitamin D & Me! website to include important information about the synergistic relationship between vitamin D and vitamin K2—two nutrients that work together to support bone and cardiovascular health. The update addresses a knowledge gap among the public and provides new scientific context for supplement use.
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MAY 12, 2025 — The CRN Foundation, the educational arm of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), will once again champion the importance of prenatal nutrition at the 2025 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting, taking place May 16–18 in Minneapolis.
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MAY 8, 2025 - The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry, announced today it has submitted formal comments to the U.S. Department of Commerce urging the agency to exclude dietary supplements and their ingredients from actions arising from the Department’s Section 232 national security investigation of pharmaceutical imports.
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MAY 5, 2025 - The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association representing dietary supplement and functional food manufacturers and ingredient suppliers, has completed outreach to all 79 freshman offices in both the House and Senate (including two new non-voting delegates), reinforcing CRN’s commitment to early engagement with new policymakers and laying the groundwork for the association’s 2025 Day on the Hill, taking place in June.
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APRIL 29, 2025 - The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry, has completed an updated evaluation of magnesium safety, raising its recommended safe upper level (UL) for magnesium supplements to 500 milligrams per day for healthy adults, based on new human clinical data showing that higher levels are well tolerated.
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