Articles by Shari Barbanel
AHPA Responds to FDA Request on Botanical Drug Development
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) submitted comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to a request for information on the challenges and opportunities facing botanical drug development. In 2004, FDA published botanical drug guidance intended to facilitate the approval of over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription drug products derived from or consisting of botanicals. ...
Vitafoods Europe Launches Partnership With Charitable Foundation to Support Healthier Children
Vitafoods Europe has announced a new partnership with La Fundació privada per a l’Esport i l’Educació de Barcelona (FEEB), a non-profit organization that uses healthy lifestyle initiatives to provide equal opportunities for young people across Barcelona, Spain. The multi-year collaboration will see Vitafoods Europe support programs that promote healthy nutrition and help to raise awareness ...
Döhler Expands Global Color Capabilities
Creating successful food and beverage products increasingly requires color solutions that combine strong visual appeal with natural sourcing, reliable availability and efficient implementation. To support customers in meeting these requirements across markets, Döhler (Germany) is expanding its global color production network through major investments in Turkey and Mexico. The expansion combines significantly increased production capacity ...
UNPA and CCCMHPIE Launch Joint Supply Chain and Trade Initiative
The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) and the China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Medicines & Health Products (CCCMHPIE) launched the U.S.-China Dietary Supplement and Food Ingredient Supply Chain and Trade Cooperation Initiative. The initiative builds on the organizations’ memorandum of understanding (MOU) to strengthen ingredient supply chains supporting U.S. manufacturing and ...
Industry Urges NIH to Preserve Independence of Office of Dietary Supplements
Four leading dietary supplement trade organizations are collectively urging the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to reconsider a proposed reorganization that would place the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) under the Office of Nutrition Research (ONR), warning that the change could undermine ODS’s distinct congressional mandate, diminish its scientific reach, and create unnecessary bureaucratic barriers ...
Aloha Medicinals Expands Production Footprint
Aloha Medicinals is expanding its production footprint with a second facility, adding more climate-controlled grow rooms and new processing capabilities to its existing operation in Carson City, NV. The expansion builds on the company’s established cultivation and quality systems, giving Aloha Medicinals more capacity to support larger customer programs, maintain the batch-to-batch consistency its partners ...
Medicinal Genomics Launches Next-Day Pathogen Testing for Dietary Supplements
Medicinal Genomics (Beverly, MA) has launched a rapid microbial testing solution for dietary supplement manufacturers that delivers next-day pathogen results, compared with the three to five days typical of USP <2022> culture methods. The solution includes three PathoSEEK multiplex qPCR assays, paired with the MaGiC Lysis Kit, to detect Salmonella, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbiology testing is often ...
MartinBauer Nutraceuticals Launches Dedicated U.S. Nutraceuticals Unit
Following the successful launch of MartinBauer Nutraceuticals in Europe, the company has announced the establishment of its dedicated U.S. Nutraceuticals business unit, marking the next phase of its international growth strategy and strengthening its commitment to the North American dietary supplement market. The new business unit combines MartinBauer’s botanical sourcing, plant science and extraction expertise ...
HTBA Acquires Specnova
HealthTech Bio Actives (HTBA, Barcelona, Spain) has announced the acquisition of Virginia-based Specnova, a biotechnology company specialized in next-generation ingredient delivery technologies to improve the bioavailability, performance and efficacy of plant compounds, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and peptides. This is HTBA’s first acquisition and marks a strategic milestone for both companies, bringing together their complementary ...
OmegaQuant Awarded Additional NIH Funding to Test Blood Fatty Acid Algorithm as Earlier Predictor of Insulin Resistance
OmegaQuant Analytics (Sioux Falls, SD) has received additional funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance research into a blood fatty acid-based algorithm as a potentially earlier and more accessible predictor of insulin resistance. The newly funded project, “Testing a Blood Fatty Acid Algorithm as an Earlier and Easier Predictor of Insulin Resistance,” builds on OmegaQuant’s ...
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