Articles by Shari Barbanel
FDA Holds CBD Public Hearing
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public hearing on cannabidiol, also known as CBD, at its Silver Spring, MD headquarters on Friday, May 31. The New York Times (NYT), called the hearing “the hottest ticket in the capital.” More than 400 applicants, from the U.S. Hemp Roundtable to blue chip law firms, had ...
ExcelVite Collaborates with USP in Developing a Monograph for Carotenes
PIC/S cGMP (current good manufacturing practice)-certified palm carotene producer ExcelVite (Edison, NJ) announced that a collaboration with USP (U.S. Pharmacoepia) resulted in the publication of a new plant carotenes monograph. The new USP Carotenes monograph was a collaborative effort between ExcelVite, USP and its Non-Botanical Dietary Supplements Expert Committee. It was developed based on palm ...
Gencor Partners with Renowned Cannabis Researcher to Promote CBD Alternatives
Gencor (Irvine, CA) has partnered with Dr. Daniele Piomelli,the director of the Center for the Study of Cannabis at the University of California, Irvine, and the editor-in-chief of the first peer-reviewed journal on cannabis and the cannabinoids, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, to help promote natural alternatives to CBD within the industry. Piomelli, who is a distinguished professor ...
DuPont Encourages Third-party Certification of Probiotic Products to Improve End-user Trust
DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences (Wilmington, DE) explored the importance and advantages of third-party evaluations to certify probiotic quality, purity and label accuracy in a recent study which was published in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Microbiology. The published paper, “Improving End-User Trust in the Quality of Commercial Probiotic Products,” encourages manufacturers to implement comprehensive ...
California State Assembly Passes Bill Authorizing Retail Sales in CBD Food & Supplements
On May 22, the California State Assembly on passed a bill that would authorize the retail sale of hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD)—a move intended to supplant a position adopted by health officials in 2018 that has caused a commotion. Assembly Bill 228 passed by a final vote of 76 to 0, according to a source in the ...
CVS Launches “Tested to Be Trusted” Program for Supplements
CVS Pharmacy (Rhode Island), the retail division of CVS Health, announced the launch of “Tested to Be Trusted,” a program requiring third-party testing of all vitamins and supplements sold in-store and online to confirm the accuracy of the dietary ingredients listed on the supplement facts panel and to confirm products are free from certain additives ...
OmegaQuant’s Omega-3 Tests Now Registered in the E.U.
OmegaQuant’s (Sioux, Falls, SD) Omega-3 Index and Prenatal DHA test kits are now registered in the E.U. as in-vitro diagnostic medical devices. They are also CE-marked, which is the regulatory approval it needs to sell into Europe. Thus, these tests are now accessible in Europe, as well as in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. CE marking is the medical device manufacturer’s claim that ...
Symrise Expands Encapsulation Capacity With New SPD Facility
Paul Graham, president of Symrise Flavors North America, announced that Symrise has expanded its manufacturing capacity with the opening of a new 23,000-square-foot spray bed drying (SBD) facility in Branchburg, NJ, enhancing the company’s ability to deliver the full taste experience in encapsulated flavors to food and beverage brands across North America. SBD ensures good ...
Industry Touts New Benchmarking Standards at ANSI’s Dietary Supplements Standardization Coordination Meeting
New benchmarking standards for nutritional supplements were discussed on May 13, during the American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) Dietary Supplements Standardization Coordination Meeting. Dadrion Gaston, senior director, corporate ethics & compliance for Walmart led a panel discussion on the Supplement Safety and Compliance Initiative (SSCI), which includes new benchmarking guidance that is being onboarded by the world’s ...
Algalif Expands Algae Research and Ingredient Production
Algalif, Icelandic producer of pure, high-grade, natural astaxanthin from microalgae, has announced new funding and an expansion of its manufacturing capabilities with the addition of a spray dryer in order to increase downstream capacity and facilitate the development of new algae ingredients and novel product formats. The upgrades to its facilities and installation of new ...
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