Articles by Shari Barbanel
CV Sciences and Alkemist Labs Form Partnership to Support the NIST’s CannaQAP
CV Sciences, Inc. (San Diego, CA) has announced an ongoing partnership with Alkemist Labs (Garden Grove, CA) to collaborate with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on efforts to help cannabis testing labs demonstrate and improve measurement capabilities and comparability. The tools developed by this NIST cannabis program will support measurements establishing legal, ...
Pitch Publicity and INICIVOX Awarded for Diversity & Inclusion Campaign
The campaign titled “Identifying The Elephant in the Room: Critical Communications Strategies in the Face of Racism,” by INICIVOX and Pitch Publicity, has won the 2020 award for best Diversity & Inclusion Campaign given by PR News during its Social Impact Summit CSR Diversity Awards. This seminar series was inspired by #BlackOutTuesday, according to Amy ...
Chinova Bioworks Celebrates 5 Years in Stride With Manufacturing Expansion
Chinova Bioworks, co-founded by Natasha Dhayagude and David Brown, is celebrating its fifth anniversary and rapidly expanding its manufacturing to increase capacity and meet demands for the proprietary, natural preservative, clean-label mushroom extract ingredient. The move to a larger and newly built 20,000-square-foot Bioscience Manufacturing Incubator space and a new 6,000-square-foot building for expanded office ...
Nestlé to Acquire Core Brands of The Bountiful Company, Expands Health and Nutrition Portfolio
Nestlé (Switzerland) and KKR have entered into an agreement in which Nestlé will acquire core brands of The Bountiful Company for $5.75 billion (U.S.). The Bountiful Company (New York) is the No. 1 pure-play leader in the highly attractive and growing global nutrition and supplement category. The transaction includes the high-growth brands Nature’s Bounty, Solgar, Osteo ...
100th Meeting of the Dietary Supplement Trade Associations Commemorated
On April 26, four of the leading trade organizations representing the dietary supplement industry commemorated the 100th meeting of the Dietary Supplement Trade Associations (DSTA). More than 10 years ago, the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), and the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) began ...
U.S. House of Representatives Approves Cannabis Banking Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would allow banks to provide services to cannabis companies in states where it is legal, a step toward removing what analysts say is a barrier to development of a national industry. Lawmakers voted 321-101 to approve the bill and send it to the Senate. The bill ...
ABC Seeks Executive Director as Blumenthal Moves to Advisory Role
American Botanical Council’s (ABC) Founder & Director Mark Blumenthal has released an open letter to ABC members and the herbal products community stating that the ABC is seeking a new executive director (ED). “We are seeking an experienced and talented person who will help direct, manage, and lead ABC as it continues to provide and ...
Martin Bauer’s Pennsylvania Facility Completes Installation of Agile Filling System
The Martin Bauer Group (Secaucus, NJ), has announced the installation of a bottling line in its facility located in Bethlehem, PA. The system matches the one in operation at the recently acquired Power Brands—a leading beverage innovation company based in Los Angeles, CA—thus providing dual coast coverage for their customers. The Pennsylvania facility debuted just ...
Kaneka Presents Webinar on Reduction of Blood Lipids
Kaneka Probiotics (Newark, CA) will be holding a webinar for the dietary supplements industry. Dr. Robert Barry will outline the unique hypolipidemic attributes of specific, clinically-tested KABP probiotic strains. The company will also cover published experimental and clinical data demonstrating lipid reductions and mechanisms of action. The webinar is made available for scientific exchange activities ...
Kerry Unveils Consumer Research Confirming Growing Expectations of Food Safety
Kerry (Ireland) has released findings from its latest research on North American consumer attitudes, behaviors and purchasing choices as they relate to food safety, sustainability and preventing food waste. While consumer purchasing remains very much centered on the most basic need of nutrition, the research confirms that consumers are shopping more consciously and that they ...
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