Articles by Shari Barbanel
Two Researchers Awarded for Excellence in Nutrition Science
Catharine Ross, PhD, and Aditi Das, PhD, were awarded the Mary Swartz Rose Senior Investigator Award and the Mary Swartz Rose Young Investigator Award, respectively, at Nutrition 2019, the flagship meeting of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) held in Baltimore, MD. The awards, named in honor of the late Mary Swartz Rose (1874-1941), founder ...
DuPont Microbiome Venture Announces a Strategic Partnership with BioMe Oxford
The DuPont Microbiome Venture (Copenhagen, Denmark) has announced a strategic investment and partnership with BioMe Oxford Ltd. BioMe Oxford is an early stage startup located in Oxford, U.K., which is developing BioCapture, a smart, orally delivered capsule that can sample gut microbiota in both humans and animals. DuPont will partner with BioMe Oxford and the ...
Amin Talati Law Firm Announces Name Change; Continues Expansion in Core Areas
Leading regulatory and intellectual property law firm Amin Talati has announced that effective June 1, 2019, the firm’s name changed to Amin Talati Wasserman LLP, making Ivan Wasserman, who also serves as the firm’s managing partner, a name partner. “Our new name is a reflection of how far we have come and how far we ...
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 ...
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