Articles by Shari Barbanel
UNPA Partners With Clean Label Project
The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) has teamed up with the Clean Label Project to help industry prepare for AB 899, a new regulation that mandates heavy metal testing and public disclosure of test results for dietary supplements sold in California to children under age 2, with enforcement beginning Jan. 1, 2025. The UNPA/Clean Label project partnership will provide ...
WIN Announces Entrepreneurship Committee
Women In Nutraceuticals (WIN) has announced the launch of the WIN Entrepreneurship Committee. This committee was formed primarily to address WIN’s strategic objective to increase the amount of funding for, and the number of, women-owned ventures. This will be accomplished by designing and implementing a structured entrepreneurial development path that addresses various stages of business growth, and ...
Greenvit Enters North American Market
Founded in 2010 to provide technologically advanced berry and herbal extracts from botanicals grown indigenously throughout Europe, Poland-based Greenvit is now focused on working with customers in the U.S. and Canada. According to Greenvit CEO, Rafal Pietruszynski, the company is distinctive in its approach to supplying botanical ingredients (conventional and organic) and organic berries. First, ...
Naturally Network Joins UNPA as Newest MOU Partner
The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA), a leading trade association for the dietary supplement industry, has welcomed Naturally Network as its newest MOU (memorandum of understanding) partner. Naturally Network creates access within the better-for-you CPG industry by connecting members, partners and industry experts via events and programs. To date, its audience has grown to more than 45,000, serving more ...
Arla Foods Ingredients to Aquire Volac Whey Nutrition Business
Arla Foods Ingredients (Denmark) is moving forward with its acquisition of Volac’s Whey Nutrition business, after it was approved by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority. The regulator’s go-ahead followed an agreement between the two companies, which was signed in April 2024. The business is built around a processing facility at Felinfach in Wales, which ...
Proposed Sale of Kerry Dairy Ireland to Kerry Co-Operative Creameries Limited
Kerry Group plc (Ireland) announced that it has entered into an agreement with Kerry Co-Operative Creameries Limited (The Co-Op) to sell Kerry Dairy Holdings Limited to the Co-Op (The Disposal) for a total expected consideration of €500 million. Kerry Ireland is fully owned by Kerry. Kerry Dairy Ireland consists of dairy consumer products, with its ...
Caldic North America Enters Distribution Partnership with Lief Raws
Caldic North America (Mississauga, ON, Canada) has announced a new strategic partnership with Lief Raws (Valencia, CA). As part of the agreement, Caldic will exclusively distribute Lief Raws’ range of premium nutraceutical ingredients across North America, with a focus on supporting the nutrition and wellness segments of the food & beverage industry. “We are tremendously ...
NPA Wins Legal Victory Against FDA on NMN
On Nov. 5, a federal court issued a significant ruling in a lawsuit brought by the Natural Products Association (NPA) against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting that the agency cease its unlawful retroactive application of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act against nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN). The court granted NPA’s request and issued a ...
OmniActive Acquires ENovate Biolife
OmniActive Health Technologies (New Jersey) has announced the acquisition of ENovate Biolife (Mumbai, India), further strengthening its commitment to innovative, clinically proven health ingredients for consumer products, the company stated. Latha and Jayesh Chaudhary, both pharmacists by training, founded Exotic Natural in 1994, the year of DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994), ...
Maypro Group Receives Strategic Investment From Itochu Corporation
Maypro Group (Purchase, NY) has announced its partnership with Japan-based ITOCHU Corporation. As part of their strategic partnership, ITOCHU acquired a 25 percent stake in Maypro. “With Itochu’s support, we plan to expand our product offerings, pursue new geographic market opportunities, and develop new investment projects,” said May Yamada-Lifton, CEO of Maypro Group. “We are confident ...
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