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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The Global Retailer and Manufacturer Alliance (GRMA), a member-based organization with broad industry support from more than 30 major retailers in the grocery, drug, mass merchandiser, club store channels and manufacturers, is in the final stages of completing a comprehensive set of consensus-based standards for the auditing and inspection of suppliers and manufacturers. These standards will cover dietary supplements, over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and medical devices. This is a unified set of criteria that will be available to retailers for the auditing of vendors. The goal is [...]

Organization Launches Website and Adds Administrative Manager Role as it Develops Separate GMP Standards for Dietary Supplements, Cosmetics, Over-the-Counter Drugs and Medical Devices ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The Global Retailer and Manufacturer Alliance (GRMA) is growing as it continues developing a consensus-based American National Standard for Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) in the dietary supplement industry. The organization, which plans to publish the first consensus-based GMP standard for dietary supplements this spring, is hiring an administrative manager and launching www.GRMAlliance.org to encourage participation in the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards development process. [...]

ANSI-approved dietary supplement GMP standard, to be released in early 2017, will improve safety, quality and trust and reduce auditing costs ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The Global Retailer and Manufacturer Alliance (GRMA) is nearing completion of an ANSI-approved, consensus-based American National Standard for Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) in the Dietary Supplement industry. The standard, the first to be released under the GRMA initiative, can be used as a companion to ANSI/NSF 173, the official American National Standard for dietary supplement products. Global public health organization NSF International brought together leaders [...]