Articles by Shari Barbanel
Dick Griffin, John Benninger Win ABC Awards
The American Botanical Council (ABC) has announced Richard “Dick” Griffin as the recipient of its ABC Champion Award for 2017. Griffin has consistently served ABC and other organizations in the natural products community through partnerships with his insurance companies Grifcon Enterprises and Griffin Insurance Services, and his consulting work with R-T Specialty, LLC. The ABC ...
NSF Launches DNA Authenticated Mark for Dietary Supplement Ingredients
For the first time, dietary supplement ingredient suppliers can use an on-label, NSF DNA Authenticated mark to verify the identity and purity of raw ingredients. NSF International recently launched its new, independent testing protocol and verification program for raw botanical ingredients used in the dietary supplement industry. In addition to DNA authentication of the target ...
IOI Loders Croklaan and Kerry Group Initiate Small-growers Support Program
IOI Loders Croklaan (Wormerveer, The Netherlands) has partnered with Kerry Group (Tralee, Ireland), Wild Asia and the Fortuna Palm Oil Mill in Sabah to implement a three-year Small-Growers Support Program. This program supports the inclusion of smallholders into IOI’s supply chain and will boost small farmer’s (farm size between 0 to 500Ha) productivity by helping ...
Alkemist Labs Moves to Larger Facility to Accommodate Growth, Expand Capacity
Alkemist Labs (Costa, Mesa, CA) has announced a move to a new facility with more than four times more space to expand capacity and accommodate continued growth. The new 21,000-square-foot facility will include a much larger laboratory area, with the lab expanding from 1,000 square feet to nearly 6,000 square feet. The new facility will ...
NSF and iNADO Join to Protect Athletes and Consumers From Sports Supplement Risks
NSF International recently signed a two-year partnership with the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations (iNADO) based in Bonn, Germany. With the partnership, iNADO recognizes NSF’s Certified for Sport program as an invaluable resource to help athletes and consumers avoid potentially harmful ingredients and athletic banned substances found in products marketed as dietary supplements. Inadvertent doping ...
Twinlab to Close Utah Facility
Twinlab Consolidated Holdings, Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) has announced that as part of improving operational efficiencies, it will transition the manufacturing of the balance of its products to strategic manufacturing partners. As a result, the company expects operations at Twinlab’s American Fork, UT facility will cease during the first half of 2018. “We are streamlining ...
Biova and Stauber Performance Ingredients Announce New Partnership
Supplement brand owners and formulators who are looking for expanded delivery options for their joint health and beauty from within products can now ask their Stauber (Fullerton, CA) sales contact about Biova’s (Johnston, IA) water-soluble eggshell membrane ingredients. Biova’s ingredients are for joint health in humans (BiovaFlex) & pets (BiovaPlex), as well as for beauty-inside-out ...
Neptune Seeks to Develop Medical and Wellness Cannabinoid-based Products
Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. (Laval, QC, Canada) has announced an exclusive research agreement with the purpose of developing new medical and wellness targeted cannabinoid-based products, such as cannabidiol (CBD), combined with krill oil whose combination use would be exclusive to Neptune. The new products will be aimed at the growing number of federal jurisdictions ...
The Daily Wellness Company Launches TruTag On-dose Identity Solution
TruTag Technologies (Kapolei, HI), a security and technology solution provider, announced that The Daily Wellness Company (Honolulu, HI) has launched the TruTag dosage-level product identity technology into its products in the United States, starting with its top-selling product, FertilityBlend for Women. TruTag Technologies improves the safety, traceability, and authenticity of pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals with its ...
DuPont Nutrition & Health Relocates Production Site to Erskine Park
DuPont Nutrition & Health has relocated its existing production site in Botany to Erskine Park, New South Wales, Australia. The expansion and relocation show DuPont Nutrition & Health’s continued commitment to meet the increasing demands from the food industry. The Erksine Park site is a specialty food ingredient blending plant, which houses both production and ...
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