Articles by Shari Barbanel
DuPont Microbiome Venture Adds 3rd Strategic Academic Partnership
Building upon the recently announced partnership with TFTAK in March 2018, the DuPont Nutrition & Health (Copenhagen, Denmark) Microbiome Venture continues to strengthen its capabilities in announcing the third strategic research and development partnership. The newly forged relationship with INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research), through both the Micalis Institute and MetaGenoPolis, a pre-industrial ...
AMCO Proteins Launches New Website
AMCO Proteins (Burlington, NJ) has announced the launch of its new website, featuring easy navigation, streamlined product search and sample requests at the click of a button. AMCO Proteins has been innovating and manufacturing dairy proteins, functional dairy proteins and hydrolysate ingredients for the food, beverage and nutrition industries for more than 60 years. With ...
New Website Gives NPA Members Access to Exclusive Benefits
A new website launched by the Natural Products Association (NPA) will offer new features and resources exclusively for members, including a warning letter database, searchable disease claims database, Pre-DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994) ODI (old dietary ingredient) list, Red-Flagged Ingredients database, and educational and regulatory resources. In addition, NPA is working on a searchable ...
IMCD to Acquire E.T. Horn Company
IMCD N.V. (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), a leading distributor of specialty chemicals and food ingredients, has announced that it signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the outstanding shares of E.T. Horn Company. According to IMCD, HORN is an excellent fit with IMCD’s U.S. activities and supports the strategy of offering to its suppliers and ...
NSF International Adds Next Generation DNA Sequencing to Food Safety, Supply Chain Services
NSF International, a global public health and safety organization, is expanding its commercially available DNA analysis services for food safety and supply chain management to include next generation sequencing (NGS) techniques once limited to research applications. NSF International’s NGS services include whole genome sequencing, shotgun metagenomics, 16s metagenomics and genomic barcoding. “These services were developed ...
NattoPharma Spearheading Vitamin K2 RDI Program
Global cardiovascular and bone health has been negatively impacted by widespread vitamin K2 deficiency. Yet there is no established RDI (recommended daily intake) for vitamin K2. To that end, as a leader in vitamin K2, NattoPharma has enlisted its research partners to start a program to establish an RDI for vitamin K2. The program will ...
Study Questions Importance of Supplements, Industry Responds
Nutritional supplement industry associations have responded to a new study led by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto, which suggests that the most commonly consumed vitamin and mineral supplements provide no consistent health benefit or harm, and says to rely on a “healthy” diet for vitamins and minerals. Published in the ...
UNPA Announces No-sale Policy for Liquid, High-dose Caffeine Products as a Condition of Membership
The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) has approved the adoption of a new, “no-sale” policy for liquid, high-dose caffeine products for retail sales. The policy is effective immediately as a condition of membership for prospective and all current UNPA members and joins a 2015 no-sale policy for bulk-powdered caffeine products. UNPA recommends that high-dose caffeine products not ...
LifeSeasons Launches Ingredient Science Library
Over the past year, LifeSeasons and a team of medical professionals and industry leaders have been collecting clinical research summaries on 200-plus ingredients used in their 36 condition-specific formulas. The newly launched Ingredient Science Library combines years of medical expertise on various health conditions as well as published clinical research all in one platform. The ...
NSF International and Austrian Ski Federation Work to Minimize Doping Risks
NSF International, a global public health and safety organization, is collaborating with the Austrian Ski Federation to strengthen the federation’s already rigorous doping prevention program. NSF International will test sports supplements used by Austrian Ski Federation athletes to help eliminate the risk of inadvertent doping due to products being contaminated with substances banned in sport. ...
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