Articles by Shari Barbanel
Lycored Shares Success of Japan Umbrella Honesty Project
Giving back to the community is important to Lycored (Be’er Sheva, Israel), no matter where in the world the company is, and Lycored knew it wanted to do something special for the launch of its Good in Bloom program in Japan. Fast-paced days filled with distractions make it hard to notice opportunities to be thoughtful ...
Mazza Innovation Expands Financing, Senior Management Team
Mazza Innovation Ltd. (Canada) has announced that it has raised $2.8 million (Cdn) from existing and new shareholders to fund an expansion of operations at its Delta, BC PhytoClean extraction facility. Details of the financing are not being released at this time. The company is also happy to announce the appointment of three highly experienced ...
Ingredion Announces 17 Additions to Non-GMO Project Verification
Ingredion Incorporated (Westchester, IL) has announced 17 additions to its list of approved Non-GMO Project Verified ingredient solutions. The additions bring Ingredion’s total number of Non-GMO Project Verified ingredients to 133. The Non-GMO Project (www.nongmoproject.org) offers independent verification for products made according to rigorous best practices for GMO (genetically modified organisms) avoidance. Ingredion’s verified products are ...
Lallemand Receives USP’s GMP Certificate for Canadian Production Facilities
Lallemand Health Solutions announced that both of its Canadian probiotic production plants in Montreal and Mirabel successfully passed the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Quality Systems Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) audit. The company thus has become the first probiotic production facilities to receive this quality certificate. “Such achievement illustrates our long-standing commitment to quality and demonstrates ...
U.S. Sales of Herbal Supplements Increase in 2016
U.S. consumers spent an estimated 7.7 percent more on herbal dietary supplements in 2016 than in the previous year, according to the recently published HerbalGram Herb Market Report for 2016. The report, which appears in issue 115 of the American Botanical Council’s (ABC) quarterly, peer-reviewed journal HerbalGram, shows strong, continued growth for these products, with ...
Texas-based Natural Product Retailers, Manufacturers Struggle Through Storm
Across a 300-mile stretch of southeast Texas, millions of people grappled with the devastating effects of a storm that shattered rainfall records for the continental United States — houses under water, flooded roads that cut off entire neighborhoods, a loss of power affecting thousands and fuel shortages — while millions of others began to assess ...
AIC and Matrix Fine Sciences Pvt. Ltd. Announce Partnership
Massachusetts-based AIC, Inc. has announced its latest partnership with Matrix Fine Sciences Pvt. Ltd., India (MFS), which is a leading producer of nutraceuticals, specializing in the manufacturing of non-GMO (genetically modified organism) natural tocopherols, plant sterols and their derivatives. As an NACD & ISO-registered sales and marketing company, AIC is looking forward to expanding Matrix’s ...
American River Nutrition Launches New Brand Identity, Website for Company and DeltaGold Ingredient
American River Nutrition (Hadley, MA) has unveiled new branding, ranging from logos to a new website, for the company and its DeltaGold tocotrienol vitamin E ingredient. “Having spent many years focusing on the science of annatto-derived tocotrienols, we felt it was time for American River Nutrition to move to the next level in marketing our ...
Richard van Breemen Named Director of Linus Pauling Institute at OSU
Oregon State University (OSU) has named Richard van Breemen as the director of the university’s Linus Pauling Institute. Van Breemen, professor of pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will succeed Balz Frei as director and endowed chair of the institute, which studies the role of vitamins and other micronutrients in enhancing health and ...
NPA Responds to Findings of Study on Cancer Risk Among Smokers Taking Vitamin B Supplements
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has rejected a study by researchers blaming vitamin B use by male smokers for an increased risk of cancer. Dan Fabricant, PhD, president and CEO of NPA pointed to environmental factors and tobacco use as the more likely cause for increased cancer risk. Fabricant is a former head of the ...
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