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Jon Benninger
is the director of business development at Virgo Publishing, with responsibility for industry outreach and new business development. Benninger entered the natural products industry in 1990 and joined Virgo in 1995 as the founding editor of HSR magazine, now Natural Products Marketplace. He is an active member of many associations, including the American Botanical Council (ABC), American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and Natural Products Association (NPA). He also serves on the board of directors of the Natural Products Foundation.


TGA pays $55 million settlement to Pan for 2003 company-wide recall ... wow
08/18/2008 12:10

An Australian government agency (TGA) pays a multimillion dollar settlement to a company to compensate for regulatory actions that damaged the company (click here)? Wow. When I think back on all of the examples of FDA saying or doing things that damaged the dietary supplement industry, I have but one thing to say: I wish this was Australia. I wholeheartedly support the important responsibility that FDA has to regulate industries and protect public health. However, when FDA hurts a company, product or industry due to bias, overzealous enforcement action, political positioning, ignorance or apathy, where is the accountability? One of the reasons that the TGA settled this case is apparently the revelation that it held a meeting in which it was decided to use an enforcement situation to "go for the jugular" of this company. The TGA forced a recall of all 1600 Pan products (though only one was in question at the time), revoked the company's license, and effectively destroyed this $300 million publicly traded company. It is nice to see that someone down under is regulating the regulators.



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