Articles by Shari Barbanel
NSF Updates Pesticide Test Requirements for Supplements
NSF International and the NSF/ANSI 173 Joint Committee have updated the pesticide testing requirements included in NSF/ANSI 173, the only American National Standard for dietary supplements. A recent NSF study established chemical-specific pesticide limits for 185 pesticides that might be present in botanical ingredients used in dietary supplement ingredients. “The new testing requirements fill an ...
Chinova Bioworks Secures Seed Financing Round
Chinova Bioworks, a Canadian supplier of an mushroom-based natural preservative for food and beverages, has captured the interest of major food-tech venture capitalists. The company announced the close of a seed round co-led by DSM Venturing BV (Heerlen, Netherlands) and Rhapsody Venture Partners (Cambridge, MA). Other investors in the financing round include AgFunder (San Francisco, ...
Krill Fishing Companies Back Call to Protect Antarctic Ocean
A Greenpeace campaign to protect the Antarctic Ocean, backed by 1.7 million people globally, has received the unprecedented support of the vast majority of krill fishing companies operating in Antarctic waters, according to greenpeace.org. The move was announced at Greenpeace’s Antarctic 360° event in Cambridge, U.K., attended by scientists and Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem, who joined Greenpeace’s ...
IMCD Completes HORN Acquisition
Netherlands-based IMCD N.V., a distributor of specialty chemicals and food ingredients, has announced that it has successfully completed the acquisition of 100 percent of the outstanding shares of U.S. specialty chemicals distributor E.T. Company (HORN). According to the company, HORN is an excellent fit with IMCD’s U.S. activities and supports the strategy of offering to ...
Trump Tariffs Will Impose Financial Burden on Supplement Industry, NPA Warns
The Trump Administration’s proposal to impose tariffs on key ingredients for nutritional supplements and vitamins will cause disproportionate economic harm to U.S. interests and increase costs for small businesses and consumers, the Natural Products Association (NPA) said in a letter to United States Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer. President and CEO of NPA Daniel Fabricant, ...
DuPont to Open Innovation & Application Center in Japan
DuPont Nutrition & Health (Copenhagen, Denmark) has announced the opening of its new innovation center in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan later this summer. The Innovation & Application Center, Japan, located in Kanagawa Science Park will provide solutions and innovations for Japan- and Korean-based customers primarily in the bakery, beverage and dairy industries. The facility will allow ...
Mazza Innovation Acquired by Sensient Technologies
Mazza Innovation Ltd. has announced that it has been acquired by Sensient Technologies Corporation (Milwaukee, WI). The acquisition is effective immediately and terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The Mazza plant extraction facility at the Delta, BC, Canada headquarters location will remain in place. “We’re very pleased to join Sensient Technologies, a world ...
CRN: Multivitamins Are to Fill Nutrient Gaps, Not Prevent Serious Disease
A new meta-analysis, “Association of Multivitamin and Mineral Supplementation and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease,” was published online July 10 in the journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham performed a meta-analysis, putting together the results from 18 individual published studies, including randomized controlled trials and prospective cohort studies, ...
Valensa Applauds Florida’s New Requirements for Harvesting Saw Palmetto Berries
Valensa International (Eustis, FL) applauds the new rule from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), Division of Plant Industry, which requires all landowners and harvesters of saw palmetto berries to have a Native Plant Harvesting Permit as of July 17, 2018. According to Larry McCarty, head of manufacturing and supply chain at ...
Sami-Sabinsa Recognized for Export Achievement
The Sami-Sabinsa Group, which manufactures and markets phytonutrients and standardized herbal extracts, specialty fine chemicals, and organic intermediates used in the nutritional, cosmeceutical and food industries, was honored with the Best Manufacturer Exporter Award Gold in the Large Category at the 13th Export Excellence Awards organized by the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce & Industry ...
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