Articles by Shari Barbanel
Nestlé Health Science to Acquire Majority Stake in Vital Proteins
Nestlé Health Science (NHSc, Switzerland) has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Illinois-based Vital Proteins. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval. Vital Proteins will continue to operate as a standalone business—remaining committed to its founding mission of helping people live healthier lives through high quality, sustainably sourced collagen nutrition, according to the company. Becoming ...
Eevia Health Reopens Ingredient Factory After Investments
Eevia Health Oy, a Finnish producer of health ingredients made from organically certified plant extracts, has upgraded its green-chemistry manufacturing plant in Finland to meet strong demand from customers. During the first four months of 2020, Eevia Health invested in new equipment, machines, and technology to improve functionality, productivity, and throughput of the special-purpose ingredient ...
Comar to Expand East Coast Footprint
Comar (Voorhees, NJ), a premier health care plastic packaging, device and component supplier, has announced a major capacity expansion of its Buena plant operations by building a new offsite location in Vineland, NJ. The new 159,000-square-foot facility in Vineland is a 20-minute drive from the current facility, will be ISO 13485 certified, cGMP (current good ...
Exactus Announces Hemp Seed Buyback Program to Assist Farmers Impacted by COVID-19
Exactus, Inc. (Delray Beach, FL) has announced the institution of its Exactus Hemp Buyback Program in support of farmers who purchase seeds from the company. Exactus introduced its buyback program during this essential hemp planting season to aid farmers faced with hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the launch of its buyback program, Exactus ...
ACG Receives Certification For its “Clean Label” Capsules
ACG (Mumbai, India), a supplier of fully integrated solutions to the global pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industry has received a certification of compliance from Clean Label Project for its ACGcaps H+. ACG Capsules has been recognized for its “clean capsule” design and manufacture and with this accreditation it has become the world’s first capsules to receive ...
Ingredion and Batory Foods Sign Ingredient Distribution Agreement
Ingredion Inc. (Westchester, IL) has announced the signing of a strategic distribution agreement with Batory Foods (Rosemont, IL). Effective May 24, 2020, the arrangement consolidates Ingredion’s distributor voice in Southern California to help food and beverage manufacturers get the ingredients they need to produce and bring their products to market, faster. Batory Foods will become ...
NutraBio Supports First Responders Nationwide
NutraBio Labs Inc., a dietary supplement manufacturer in Middlesex, NJ, has dedicated part of its GMP (good manufacturing practice) manufacturing facility to making an immune support supplement to donate to first responders nationwide. “First responders put themselves and their family’s lives in danger every day. They are true American heroes and we believe we have an obligation to ...
Alkemist Labs Issues Warning to Industry on “Dry Reporting”
Alkemist Labs (Garden Grove, CA) has found some ingredient suppliers and marketing companies have been altering valid lab reports and using those falsified reports to promote their products. The alterations have taken multiple forms, from changing or removing the client name to replacing the lot number, and have even gone so far as to change ...
Vitamin D Linked to Low Virus Death Rate, Study Finds
A new study has found an association between low average levels of vitamin D and high numbers of COVID-19 cases and mortality rates across 20 European countries. The research, led by Dr. Lee Smith of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU, U.K.) and Petre Cristian Ilie, lead urologist of Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, ...
Demand For Immunity Products Predicted to Be a New Norm
SIRIO Europe (Ayanda), the European headquarters of the SIRIO Group (Shanghai, China), a global nutraceutical contract development, innovation and manufacturing organization (CDiMO), said considerable worldwide demand for immunity products has accelerated in recent months due to Coronavirus, but it is also likely to deliver a permanent “new norm” of higher growth. “Already in Europe, we have ...
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