Articles by Shari Barbanel
RIBUS Celebrates 30 Years of Clean Label Ingredient Innovation
RIBUS Inc. (Sparks, NV) closes out 2022 with the celebration of 30 years of business serving the food, beverage, pet and dietary supplement sectors with clean label ingredients to companies around the world. RIBUS, which stands for Rice Ingredient Business United States, said it is the “original clean label ingredient company” that supplies American-made natural and ...
Novella Leverages Advanced Technology to Grow Botanical Ingredients Outside the Field
Nutri-tech start-up Novella, Ltd. (Modiin, Israel), is opening a new chapter in climate-resilient environments through nutrient cultivation. The company said it leveraged proprietary technology to grow nutritious botanical ingredients while leaving the whole plant out of the equation. This novel platform in the plant world will help boost global accessibility to high-value nutraceuticals, according to ...
Increased Use of Government-implemented Warning Labels Can Help Reduce Poor-nutrition Related Diseases
The adoption of best practice front-of-pack nutrition labeling in more countries of Americas can help reduce poor-nutrition related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes, high blood pressure and some cancers in the region, a recent study led by researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) suggests. The study, published in the Lancet ...
Vantage Nutrition Acquires AquaCap From Nestlé Health Science
Vantage Nutrition (India), an ACG Group company, has announced that it has acquired Philadelphia, PA-based AquaCap—an asset of Nestlé Health Science. AquaCap is a leading contract manufacturer of liquid-filled capsules within the nutritional supplement industry in the United States. Its novel liquid delivery technology allows for the liquid filling of hard gelatin and vegetarian capsules. ACG ...
Micronutrient Deficiency Study Is a ‘Wake-up Call,’ says IADSA
IADSA has developed a new Mind the Gap resource highlighting the shocking findings of a scientific review exposing the true extent of global malnutrition. The study, published in The Lancet, revealed that more than half of preschool-age children and over two thirds of non-pregnant women of reproductive age worldwide have a micronutrient deficiency. In “Wake-up Call: Experts sound the alarm ...
IFF Forms Strategic Partnership to Develop AI-driven Personalized Nutrition Platform
IFF (New York, NY) has announced its plans for accelerated entry into the personalized nutrition sector through a strategic partnership with Salus Optima, a British-based, digitally-enabled personalized nutrition, health and wellness company. The initial focus for the partnership will be metabolic health, including obesity, pre-diabetes, high cholesterol and pre-hypertension, which impacts more than 25 percent of the adult population globally. ...
GCI Nutrients Announces Strategic Partnership, Patented Sweetening System
GCI Nutrients (Burlingame, CA) recently announced it has formed a strategic partnership with ThreePeaks Brands, Inc., a product-development and manufacturing company based near Phoenix, AZ. “This is a great opportunity for us to leverage our history as an ingredient supplier to the natural foods industry by teaming up with a company specifically designed to create ...
NPA Challenges Proposed Restrictions to Nutritional Supplement Access in NJ
On Nov. 14, the Natural Products Association (NPA) called a New Jersey proposal to restrict access to dietary supplements a slap in the face to public health and consumer choice in public testimony against a proposal being considered in the state legislature. A similar proposal in California was recently vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom. The ...
CRN Responds to FDA Letter Announcing β-NMN Is Not A Dietary Supplement
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has responded to U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent announcement that beta-nicotinamide mononucleotide (β-NMN) is not a legal dietary ingredient. CRN President and CEO Steve Mister expressed his dismay about the ruling. “CRN is alarmed that, once again, FDA changed its position on whether an ingredient—in this case, ...
CRN Responds to Cholesterol Study That Compares Supplements to Prescription Drug
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has responded to results of the “Supplements, Placebo, or Rosuvastatin (SPORT)” Study. It was presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions Nov. 6 and published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. SPORT, funded by AstraZeneca, the company that markets Rosuvastatin, compared the effect on low-density ...
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