Sabinsa Launches Animal Nutrition Division

Sabinsa Corporation (East Windsor, NJ) has announced VetVitals, a new ingredient division focused on animal nutrition. Shaheen Majeed, marketing director, Sabinsa, said given the large percentage on nutritional ingredients that are used in the animal nutrition sector this is the next logical move for the company. “While Sabinsa has more than 100 ingredients for human ...

AHP and UPS Botanist Embark on Osha Monograph

The American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP), in collaboration with United Plant Savers (UPS), research botanist Kelly Kindscher and other acknowledged experts, are in the process of developing an AHP Monograph and Therapeutic Compendium for the North American native botanical osha (Ligusticum porteri). A historically important and environmentally sensitive plant, osha has been one of the most ...

AHPA Proposal for Prop 65 Warning Gains Traction Among Regulators

In a breakthrough meeting with AHPA president Michael McGuffin, top officials of the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) recognized the value of AHPA’s innovative proposal to allow more informative warnings for California’s Proposition 65-listed reproductive toxins to replace the inflammatory and alarming language currently required. Based on this understanding, OEHHA requested AHPA ...

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GOED Launches Consumer Website

The Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED, Salt Lake City, UT) launched a consumer website at www.alwaysomega3s.com. According to the organization, the site is designed to be an independent educational website to educate consumers about the benefits of omega-3s and was commissioned by a coalition of omega-3 manufacturers as part of a campaign ...

Workshop Demystifies ASEAN Regulations

ASEAN (Asia, Singapore) accomplished 90 percent harmonization in the traditional medicine and health supplement sector, establishing an ASEAN Single Market in this sector in 2015. This was the message to participants at EAS’s recent workshop on “Navigating Health Supplement Regulations in ASEAN for Successful Market Access,” held at Vitafoods Asia in Hong Kong. The workshop ...

Agropur Ingredients Announces Website Launch

Agropur Ingredients (La Crosse, WI) announced new promotion plans set to launch this October. Developed to cater to the technically minded, hands-on nutritional brand customers, the new sister-site www.agropurHW.com will launch in correlation with the company’s showing at the 2014 SupplySide West Global Expo and Conference in Las Vegas, NV, reported the company. AgropurHW.com will ...

Reducing Beverage Calories Nationwide

The Coca-Cola Company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, PepsiCo and the American Beverage Association came together at The Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the Clinton Foundation in a commitment to reduce the consumption of beverage calories across America. Specifically, America’s leading beverage companies have set a goal to ...

USDA Raises Tomato Lycopene Limit for Meat

In a game-changing move, the USDA approved a five-fold increase in the level of tomato lycopene allowed as a colorant in ready-to-eat (RTE) meat products, according to LycoRed., Ltd. (Israel). This increase allows tomato lycopene colorants from manufacturer LycoRed to effectively replace FD&C Red #40 and carmine in a wide assortment of deli meats, sausages ...

DSM Launches “World of Nutrition” Portal

“World of Nutrition,” an information-rich portal sponsored by DSM Nutritional Products (Parsipanny, NJ), as a go-to resource for members of the supplement, food and beverage industries, was officially launched, reported the company. The portal is organized into five “worlds” that explore the latest science and research and offers marketing insights across key health and nutrition ...