Articles by Evelyn Reinson
Compliance in the Global Nutraceutical Market: Ensuring Consumer Safety and Business Success
In the intricate landscape of today’s global market, nutraceutical companies encounter a multitude of complex regulatory compliance frameworks and standards that require careful navigation. Governing bodies such as the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration), EFSA (European Food Safety Authority), and CFDA (China Food and Drug Administration) play a significant role in shaping these regulations, ...
Equipment & Technological Advancements Revolutionizing Nutraceutical Manufacturing
The nutraceutical industry has witnessed an unprecedented surge in demand, driven by the growing trend toward natural health solutions and a heightened awareness among consumers regarding the benefits of preventive health care. To stay competitive and meet these evolving needs, the industry has invested heavily in technological and manufacturing innovations, including artificial intelligence, customization and ...
The Steps for Ingredient Protection in Nutraceutical Manufacturing
Ingredient protection during supplement manufacturing is an important aspect of the production process that helps to ensure the quality, purity and effectiveness of the final product. There are several steps that manufacturers should take to protect ingredients during supplement manufacturing. The most important are to source high-quality raw materials, test for purity and potency, properly ...
Formulating Nutraceuticals for Children
The children’s vitamin market was first pioneered in 1960 by Miles Laboratories, the original creators of the One-A-Day chewable multivitamin, Chocks. Realizing the benefit of marketing to children, a licensing agreement was made with Hanna Barbera and the Flintstones Chewable Multi-Vitamin was born in 1968, later expanding into gummies and adding various other recognizable kid-friendly ...
Transparency in Nutraceutical Manufacturing
Inspection and track and trace solutions for nutraceuticals. More than half (55 percent) of consumers say having “transparent and open business practices” builds trust in a company and trust in a company makes consumers more likely to buy their product (68 percent), recommend them to a friend or colleague (59 percent) and even pay more ...
Driving New Product Development
The Driver of New Product Development: The Empowered Consumer Today’s supplement consumers have more options, more knowledge and higher expectations than ever before. They know the difference between an ad and a listing or a review and a sponsored post. This consumer skips the marketing jargon and heads to the comment section, they have Google ...
Nutraceutical Manufacturing and COVID—The Ultimate Disruptor
The term and theory “disruptive innovation” was coined by Clayton Christensen in the book, The Innovator’s Dilema,1 published just as digital technology was beginning to have a seismic impact. It provides a compelling explanation for why disrupters may blindside and overwhelm even the best-managed companies; these teachings have been employed by world renowned leaders such ...
Tailor Made Dietary Supplements
According to Wikipedia, “one-size-fits-all” is a common, cliché phrase that has been used for more than five decades in both a positive and negative connotation and while some industries may benefit from the one-size-fits-all model, the nutraceutical industry has shown to be anything but such. Consumer trends were already moving away from the one for ...
Tableting by Design
Tableting is a broad term used to describe methods of compressing a powder formulation into a solid dosage form using a tablet press or tableting machine. Tablet manufacturing can be challenging due to the physical nature of the ingredients and the number of active ingredients present in nutraceutical formulations. The correct tablet design process is ...
Granulation for the Nutritional Market
The term “granulated” is derived from the Latin word “granulatum” meaning grained, a process that evolved from delivering powder by hand rolling into a pill by using honey or sugar and had been used for centuries to combine ingredients that could not be blended together. Today, granulation is the process of joining fine powders into ...
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