Nutritional Foods

The NPA, formerly known as the National Nutritional Foods Association, is a nonprofit organization that protects consumers and manufacturers by ensuring product quality and label integrity in the dietary supplement industry. The NPA modeled its own Good Manufacturing Practices Certification Program after the GMPs recommended by members of the dietary supplement industry in 1997. This program consists of random third party inspections of members’ manufacturing facilities to determine whether they meet specifications for staff training, cleanliness, and equipment maintenance, record keeping, and handling of raw materials. The NPA’s TruLabel Program randomly tests members’ products for “label integrity” to ensure that the product contents are as listed. Members of the NPA that manufacture dietary supplements under their own label have been required to participate in this program since 1990.