Steve Mister

As a new lawsuit challenges FDA's food-only interpretation of authoritative health claims, Steve Mister, president and CEO of CRN, discusses its own First Amendment case over New York's age restrictions and how Sergeant Searchlight fits into serious policy advocacy.

The association’s president and CEO explains the strategy behind Sergeant Searchlight, and why voluntary product databases fall short of the mandatory registry the industry has pursued for 6 years.

From colonial-era herbal remedies to today's daily multivitamin, this reflection on America's 250th birthday traces how the impulse behind dietary supplements has been part of the nation's story from the very beginning.

Two decades later, supplement users seek choice, take control.

“To battle pointlessly only gives the industry’s critics further ammunition that we oppose any effort to rein in the bad actors that lurk around the fringes of the industry,” says CRN’s Steve Mister.

As we reach the crossroad that is FDA’s NDI guidance, let’s take a trip down regulatory lane to see how we got here.

There’s a train about to leave the station, and I sure want dietary supplements to be on it. That train is healthcare reform, or at least a substantial rethinking of the approach to healthcare in this country.

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