Articles by Shari Barbanel
Biovation Labs Expands Supplement Manufacturing Capabilities
Biovation Labs (Salt Lake City, UT) has announced it is expanding its capabilities to better serve its clients with the installation of an Aquarius G-J high-speed rotary tablet press from Kikusui. “As a contract manufacturer, flexibility and versatility are core to our offerings,” said Justin Bath, president of Biovation Labs. “By investing in the best ...
BI Achieves ISO Laboratory Accreditation
BI (Rancho Dominguez, CA) has announced successful completion of its ISO/IEC 17025:2017 certification. After evaluation of the company’s quality management system and testing procedures, American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) recognized BI for demonstrating technical competence in the field of biological testing. ISO 17025 is one of the highest standards that a testing laboratory can ...
Lesaffre Completes Full Acquisition of Gnosis
Lesaffre (France) has announced the full acquisition of Gnosis, an Italian biotechnology company specialized in the development, manufacturing and sale of fermentation-derived ingredients and natural finished products for use in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, veterinary and cosmetic industries, three years after acquiring a majority shareholding of the company. Founded in 1989, Gnosis has experienced strong growth ...
DuPont Nutrition & Health Unveils New Research on Plant-based Eating
DuPont Nutrition & Health (St. Louis, MO) has announced the results of a recent study on the eating habits of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers. The latest research adds to a growing body of insight-driven studies that can help today’s food and beverage companies with predictive and forward-thinking analysis. The research, conducted with HealthFocus International, ...
New Fish Oil, Vitamin D Studies Focus in on Who Benefits
Big studies on fish oil and vitamin D offer suggestions on who does and does not benefit from these popular nutrients. Results were revealed on November 10 at an American Heart Association conference in Chicago, IL and published by the New England Journal of Medicine in a study titled “The Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (VITAL).” The ...
Cargill & Royal DSM Join to Bring Zero-calorie, Cost-effective Sweeteners to Market Faster
As food and beverage producers look to significantly reduce calories in their offerings to consumers, they are in need of non-artificial, zero-calorie, great-tasting sweetener options. Cargill (Minneapolis, MN) and Netherlands-based Royal DSM, recently announced a new joint venture, Avansya, to rise to this challenge. Together, the companies will produce highly sought-after, sweet-tasting molecules, such as ...
FDA Announces New Final Guidances on Revised Nutrition Labeling
On November 2, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced two new final guidances to help companies revise nutrition labels for conventional foods and dietary supplements to comply with the new regulations. One document deals with the definition of a single-serving container, reference amounts customarily consumed, which are used by companies to determine serving ...
SIRIO Pharma Opens New Supersized Plant for Gummy Production in China
Sirio Pharma Co. Ltd. (SIRIO, China), the global nutraceutical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has announced the opening of a gummy production plant at its new development and manufacturing facility in Ma’anshan (more than 186 miles west of Shanghai, China). This announcement comes 11 years after SIRIO opened its first gummy facility, also in ...
Trade Associations Warn Consumers of Dangerous Substance Illegally Marketed as a Dietary Supplement
The dietary supplement industry sounded the alarm about the dangers of “phenibut,” a substance being illegally marketed in products fraudulently labeled as dietary supplements. Developed and used as a drug in the former Soviet Union for its supposed brain-enhancing properties, phenibut is not approved as a drug in the United States, nor does it meet ...
Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program Publishes Revised Bulletin on Saw Palmetto
The ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP) has announced the publication of a revised Botanical Adulterants Prevention Bulletin (BAPB) on saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) berry and berry extracts. Saw palmetto extract is a popular ingredient in dietary supplements in the United States and other countries and in phytomedicinal products in Europe. The primary use is ...
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