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NDI Groundhog Day: Let's Start a New Day!

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Feb 10, 2012, 10:09 am
NDI Groundhog Day: Let’s Start a New Day!
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Whistleblower Lawsuit Puts Spotlight On FDA Technical Reviews - ScienceInsider

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Feb 6, 2012, 5:57 pm
Whistleblower Lawsuit Puts Spotlight On FDA Technical Reviews - ScienceInsider
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Hershey Will Offer Certified Chocolate Following Consumer-Driven Campaign

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Feb 1, 2012, 11:09 am
Company announces new commitment to buying Rainforest Alliance certified cocoa after hearing from over 100,000 consumers; takes first step to addressing child labor WASHINGTON, D.C.///February 1, 2012/// The Hershey Company announced yesterday that it will make its first commitment to sourcing inde...
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Audi Goes Vamp!

James Gormley posted an article on Vampire Books Navigator - Jan 27, 2012, 10:59 am
By James J. Gormley Need more proof of how powerful the popular appeal of bitey things in the night are? This latest commercial from Audi re their new headlights: hats, er cape, off to them!
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Good fats and vitamins keep the brain young!

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jan 27, 2012, 12:32 am
By James J. Gormley “Get rid of all trans fats in your diet!” is the main takeaway message from a December 28 study on vitamins and the brain in the journal Neurology. According to lead author Gene Bowman ND MPH, an assistant professor of neurology at the NIA-Layton Center for Aging & Alzheimer ...
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IPA founder: EU probiotic approach is "dirty pool"

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Dec 23, 2011, 9:59 am
IPA founder: EU probiotic approach is “dirty pool”
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Inaccurate media coverage and misguided attempts at regulation? A year in consumer health advocac...

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Dec 21, 2011, 9:45 am
Inaccurate media coverage and misguided attempts at regulation? A year in consumer health advocac...
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Citizens for Health NDI guidance withdrawal petition signatures approach 15,000

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Dec 6, 2011, 12:08 pm
Citizens for Health NDI guidance withdrawal petition signatures approach 15,000
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You Did It!!!!!

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Dec 6, 2011, 12:35 am
You Did It!!!!!
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10,000 Americans Tell FDA: Withdraw the "NDI Draft Guidance"!!

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Dec 6, 2011, 12:35 am
10,000 Americans Tell FDA: Withdraw the “NDI Draft Guidance”!!
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10,000 Signatures in 10 Days; We Can Do It!

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Nov 23, 2011, 12:44 am
By James J. Gormley With Citizens for Health supporters already having generated over 11,000 letters to Congress demanding that the FDA’s NDI Draft Guidance be withdrawn, the organization is now on a mission to collect 10,000 petitions in 10 days calling for Congress to withhold FDA appropri...
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Petition to Demand that the FDA Withdraws the NDI Draft Guidance!

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Nov 22, 2011, 10:32 am
By James J. Gormley Let's call on Congress to demand that the FDA summarily withdraws the NDI Draft Guidance and goes on the record stating that the agency will not, now or ever, review, consider, surveil or engage in enforcement activities according to the re-interpretation of the Dietary Supplemen...
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A Defining Moment for the Dietary Supplement Industry

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Nov 11, 2011, 5:37 pm
By James J. Gormley The Federal Register states that the New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) Draft Guidance, “when finalized, will represent the Agency’s current thinking on NDIs and dietary supplements that contain NDIs.” Although this same notice observes that the Guidance is not binding, the U.S...
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Senate Vote Puts Net Neutrality Rules in Jeopardy

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Nov 9, 2011, 8:55 am
Consumers Union Urges Senators to Support an Open Internet WASHINGTON, D.C. - As the Senate gears up to vote on a proposal to repeal the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet rules, Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy division of Consumer Reports, sent a letter to Cap...
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Isometric Exercises for Strong Core Muscles

James Gormley posted an article on Curb Those Cravings! - Nov 9, 2011, 8:41 am
Guest Post by by Beverly Miller Everyone knows that doing crunches and sit-ups will give you stronger abdomen muscles, but you want to make sure that you have true core strength. Simply slamming in a few sit-ups or crunches shouldn't be all that you do to keep your core muscles in shape. There are s...
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NHRI Symposium Heralds A New Era for Dietary Supplements

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Nov 1, 2011, 4:30 pm
 By James J. GormleyThe ballroom was packed at the Natural Health Research Institute (NHRI) 6th Annual Scientific Symposium in Schaumburg, Illinois on October 28th, as well it should have been not only considering the event title, which was “Cutting Healthcare Costs Through Prevention: Measuring ...
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Coffee Consumption Associated With Decreased Risk for Basal Cell Carcinoma

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Oct 26, 2011, 8:53 am
Coffee Consumption Associated With Decreased Risk for Basal Cell Carcinoma
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Natural Products Foundation – John R. Carlson Memorial

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Oct 8, 2011, 10:35 am
Natural Products Foundation – John R. Carlson Memorial
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Citizens for Health: NDI guidance 'contravenes spirit and letter of DSHEA'

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Sep 24, 2011, 1:32 pm
Citizens for Health: NDI guidance ‘contravenes spirit and letter of DSHEA'
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Citizens for Health Launches Campaign Against FDA's NDI Guidance

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Sep 21, 2011, 4:13 pm
Citizens for Health Launches Campaign Against FDA’s NDI Guidance
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Jarrow Formulas Challenges FDA on NDIs With 128-Item Freedom of Information Request

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Sep 16, 2011, 12:39 pm
By Stephen Daniells From Nutraingredients-USA. California-based Jarrow Formulas has submitted a 128-item Freedom of Information Request to the U.S. FDA with questions it deems "vital" to any comments it seeks to file in response to the New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) draft guidance. The Freedom of Info...
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The FDA's Plan to Cripple the Health Food Industry: Their New War Has Begun

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Sep 9, 2011, 4:45 pm
By James J. Gormley According to a July 7, 2011 report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Pathway to Global Product Safety and Quality, government spending on healthcare has been on the rise since at least 1990 in the world’s leading economies. U.S. Medicare spending is projected t...
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Emord on NDI Guidance

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Sep 8, 2011, 2:26 pm
From Nutraingredients-USA By Elaine Watson If sufficient pressure is exerted by key members of Congress, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that the FDA might suspend its draft guidance on NDIs (new dietary ingredients) or even withdraw it altogether, according to food law attorney Jonathan E...
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FDA Must Withdraw NDI Guidance or Extend Comment Period to July 2012

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Sep 5, 2011, 10:23 pm
FDA Must Withdraw NDI Guidance or Extend Comment Period to July 2012
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What's old is new again? The FDA takes aim at modern science and innovation

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jul 18, 2011, 12:54 am
By James J. Gormley On January 4th, 2011, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law. It included a number of requirements, including one that the FDA issue industry guidance as to when companies need to submit New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) notifications to the agency and when they ...
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In the Footsteps of Dracula — A Personal Journey and Travel Guide

James Gormley posted an article on Vampire Books Navigator - Jul 6, 2011, 8:34 pm
REVIEW In the Footsteps of Dracula—A Personal Journey and Travel Guide (paperback)Author: Steven P. Unger Publisher: World Audience Inc./$20.00 Date of Publication: 2010 Reviewed by James J. Gormley (member, National Book Critics Circle) Steve Unger, a veteran traveler and writer, has accomplish...
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E.F.S.A. ? N.O.P.E.!

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jun 27, 2011, 11:01 pm
Courtesy of the SupplySide Community By James J. Gormley Let me start off by saying that EFSA (the European Food Safety Authority) and I go way back, as it were. As a natural products industry regulatory officer, while I found having to not only go through individual European Union (EU) me...
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The FDA Needs A Warning Letter of Its Own

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jun 16, 2011, 11:43 pm
By James J. Gormley In June 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the final rule on Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs), which, according to Nutraingredients-usa.com, is regarded by many as “the most important regulatory development for the dietary supplement industry i...
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Stay Cool While Exercising This Summer

James Gormley posted an article on Curb Those Cravings! - Jun 15, 2011, 10:43 pm
By James J. Gormley According to USA Today, "When heat and humidity combine to slow evaporation of sweat from the body, outdoor exercise becomes dangerous even for those in good shape." Key rules for coping with heat are: drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration slow down and cool off when feeling...
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Son of the Dragon: How Dracula Got His Name

James Gormley posted an article on Vampire Books Navigator - May 17, 2011, 6:27 pm
By VBN guest, Steven P. Unger, author of In the Footsteps of Dracula: A Personal Journey and Travel Guide Hundreds of years before Christ, the Dacians (called "Agathyrsoi" by Herodotus in the fourth volume of his Histories) were the first recorded people to live in Transylvania. They tattooed their...
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Quality: Giving It A Chance

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - May 17, 2011, 12:39 am
By James J. Gormley Courtesy of the SupplySide Community FDA defines economic adulteration as: “The fraudulent, intentional substitution or addition of a substance in a product for the purpose of increasing the apparent value of the product or reducing the cost of its production, i.e., for economi...
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Un-Health and the Crisis of Modern Civilization

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Mar 20, 2011, 12:39 am
By James J. Gormley The modern healthcare crisis is a modern crisis in health, first and foremost, before we even get to access to the question of “care.” To put this point in perspective, let’s take a step back to late 2010, when British researchers published their examination of nearly 1,...
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Stay Tuned!

James Gormley posted an article on Vampire Books Navigator - Mar 16, 2011, 10:58 pm
Dear Reader, Stay tuned for upcoming reviews of classic and newer vampire fiction, starting with a review of Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian. You won't regret it! James Gormley Vampire Books Navigator
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Ayurveda: From ancient wisdom to modern medicine

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Feb 9, 2011, 10:07 pm
By James J. Gormley Thousands of years ago, in India, in a "journey" spanning centuries, the accumulated wisdom of scientific practice and knowledge--including advanced experience in medicine--was distilled into four multi-volume compendia, the Vedas: the Rig Veda (4,500 years ago), Yajur Veda, Sam...
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The Food Safety Law: The Way Forward

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jan 29, 2011, 5:00 pm
By James J. Gormley The biggest food-industry-related issue of the 2009-2010 Congress was S. 510/HR 2751, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA or Public Law 111-353). Advocacy and political positioning on the FSMA exemplified both successes that can be achieved via industry-consumer collaboration...
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In the land of real women

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jan 20, 2011, 10:06 pm
By James J. Gormley Although winter has much of the U.S. in its icy grip, many Americans like going to Florida or other sunny climes in February and especially in March, when Spring Break is upon us. With sun-kissed beaches come the tiny, itsy bitsy polka dot bikinis with which sandy diversions are ...
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Why Obama Care Needs to Be Repealed

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jan 17, 2011, 5:22 pm
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Guest contributor The plight of people who lose their insurance and then get sick is one of the most appealing arguments for health care reform. And the White House really took advantage of it, soliciting tear-jerking stories from responsible folks who played by the rules and...
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Germ Hysteria

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jan 9, 2011, 8:12 pm
By James J. Gormley If you ever were in a hospital awaiting surgery, have you had a nurse or doctor shake your hand while wearing rubber gloves? I have. It’s one of the least comforting, while most impersonal and sterile, human exchanges that I have experienced. Are germs today that much more ramp...
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Medical futility .... or failure to hope?

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jan 8, 2011, 11:00 pm
By James J. Gormley Some years ago there developed a movement of people who wanted to convince society that doctors could decide whether to withhold, or withdraw, treatment for very sick, or "terminal," patients, "even over the objections of a competent patient." The movement peaked in 1995 when 134...
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Ribbonless Presents, Unwrapped Gifts

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jan 7, 2011, 7:00 pm
By James J. Gormley Now that the holidays are over, it’s worth remembering that gifts don’t always come in shiny red paper with bright golden ribbons. One of the first gifts I received from my parents had no holiday packaging at all. On cold winter nights, when I was two, my father, whom I would...
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New Year, New You!

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jan 6, 2011, 10:15 pm
By James J. Gormley New Year’s means change. It also means tradition, or that which doesn’t change.  Guy LombardoWhen I was little, the night of December 31st was not New Year’s Eve until I sat down with my parents to watch Guy Lombardo and His Montreal Canadians. It ...
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Which is the real bioterrorism?

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jan 4, 2011, 11:00 pm
By James J. Gormley Recently, I was thinking about the many ways in which nature's balance and our bodies are thrown off kilter by toxins,allergens and disease. Many of the imbalances are the result of a complex web of disastrously irrational environmental and industrial policies. In most cases, h...
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Good Intentions Do Not A Good Bill Make; President Obama Must Veto This Bill

James Gormley posted an article on The Gormley Files - Jan 3, 2011, 10:58 pm
By James J. Gormley President Obama is waiting to hear from you, your neighbors, your brothers, your sisters, your parents — and all of America — as to whether to sign the "food safety bill" into law. If you agree with all of the problems we have identified with this bill — or even with most o...
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Blogger, award-winning journalist, published author and reviewer, Gormley covers a wide range of topics in his blogs, from health and health justice (The Gormley Files, The Alpha Lipoic Acid Blog, Curb Those Cravings!) to reviews of books (Health Books Navigator, Vampire Books Navigator). Happy reading and thanks for visiting! Guest posts are always more than welcome!

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