Articles by Shari Barbanel
Comet Bio Announces Investment in Sustainable Food Manufacturing Facility
Comet Bio recently announced an investment with RE Energy to build a dedicated manufacturing facility in Denmark. RE Energy, a REE Holding company, will upgrade and expand its existing facility in Kalundborg to supply more than 4 million kilograms of Comet Bio’s Arrabina prebiotic fiber per year. RE Energy will as well operate the new facility ...
NPA Sues FDA: Asks Courts to Block “Unlawful Action” in NAC Situation
The Natural Products Association (NPA) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting that the agency cease its unlawful retroactive application of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act against N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC). “We are very concerned that a safe, legal natural product that has been sold for over 30 years is under ...
Achieving Stress-free Sleep
The pandemic has only amplified the issues Americans are having with getting a stress-free night of rest. Natural ingredients may be the solution. It is shocking no one to say that Americans are stressed out. And if we weren’t feeling enough stress, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the nation to not only deal with the virus ...
Lief Labs’ Adel Villalobos Joins California’s The CEO Council
Lief Labs (Valencia, CA) has announced that the company’s founder and CEO, Adel Villalobos, has joined The CEO Council, an advisory group of top business leaders dedicated to bringing balance back to the state’s public policies, encourage the economy and promote a robust business climate. Villalobos is among the more than 100 regional CEOs and ...
NPA Opposes Vaccine Mandates
The Natural Products Association (NPA) is petitioning the U.S. Court of Appeals to declare the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate unlawful, warning that it will have an immediate adverse impact on employers, including those in the natural products industry. “We are sounding the alarm today because we have serious concerns this extreme regulation imposes an unrealistic ...
Associations Comment on the Nomination of Robert M. Califf for FDA Commissioner
On Nov. 12, President Biden announced that he will nominate Robert M. Califf, MD for commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Califf is an internationally recognized expert in clinical trial research, health disparities, health care quality and cardiovascular medicine. He has nearly four decades of experience as a doctor, researcher, leader and ...
New Consumer Health Care Platform Everwell Health Acquires Nutrition21
RoundTable Healthcare Partners (Lake Forest, IL), an operating-oriented private equity firm focused exclusively on the health care industry, announced that it has established Everwell Health Holdings, LLC, a new consumer health and wellness functional ingredients platform. Concurrently, Everwell Health announced its acquisition of Nutrition21, LLC (Harrison, NY) as its first investment. Financial details of the ...
IFF Health Introduces Resource Hub to Drive
IFF Health (Madison, WI) is has introduced a new website that brings together the expanded capabilities of the newly merged IFF Health and HOWARU businesses. This resource hub is a launchpad designed to provide brand partners and co-manufacturers deep technical insights, updated market intelligence and comprehensive microbiome innovation resources. Industry players in the microbiome space know that sourcing for efficacious, ...
ADM to Acquire Deerland Probiotics & Enzymes
ADM (Chicago, IL) has announced a significant expansion of its broad portfolio of health and wellness products and solutions with an agreement to purchase Deerland Probiotics & Enzymes. “The microbiome represents one of ADM’s six strategic growth platforms, and with global demand for health and wellness products estimated at more than $775 billion, today’s investment ...
ACG “Makes it Better” With New Brand Proposition
ACG (India) is consolidating its founding values of caring, collaboration and progressiveness in a comprehensive re-brand. As one of the world’s leading suppliers of fully integrated solutions to the global pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industry, ACG is taking this opportunity to share launching the message at the heart of its operation— “Make it Better.” As part ...
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