Articles by Shari Barbanel
Sirio Pharma Partners With Vitamin Angels to Support Underserved Communities
Sirio Pharma (City of Industry, CA) has partnered with Vitamin Angels, a global public health nonprofit organization dedicated to improving nutrition and health outcomes for the most nutritionally vulnerable groups—pregnant women, infants, and children—by delivering evidence-based nutrition interventions. As part of the partnership, Sirio has committed to an annual donation to help Vitamin Angels expand ...
Aker BioMarine and Aker QRILL Company Takes Step to Drive Antarctic Marine Protection
At the UN Ocean Conference 2025, Aker BioMarine (Norway) and Aker QRILL Company (Norway) announced their ongoing advocacy for new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Antarctica, marking an instance of an industry voluntarily pushing for regulations that will directly impact its operations. The proposed MPA will protect nearly 70 percent of the Antarctic Peninsula. The ...
Bipartisan Lawmakers Relaunch Caucus to Advance Supplement Education and Oversight
Four leading trade associations representing the dietary supplement industry—the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), and United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA)—have announced their collective support for the re-establishment of the bipartisan, bicameral Congressional Dietary Supplement Caucus in the 119th Congress. The caucus is being re-launched ...
CRN’s 2025 ‘Day on the Hill’ Brings Together Top Supplement Executives & Lawmakers
More than 79 dietary supplement industry executives representing member companies of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) convened in Washington, D.C. for CRN’s annual Day on the Hill—a cornerstone event that promotes direct dialogue between industry leaders and lawmakers. Held on June 11, the event featured 69 face-to-face meetings on Capitol Hill, including discussions with ...
Eurofins Healthcare Assurance Launches Four New GMP Certification Scopes
The Eurofins Healthcare Assurance network of companies has announced the addition of four new GMP (good manufacturing practice) certification scopes under its GMP Certification program to support buyers and suppliers to reach U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration) compliance for dietary ingredients, cosmetics and over-the-counter drugs. Following the success of the Eurofins Healthcare Assurance GMP ...
Arla Foods Ingredients and Brenntag Expand Collaboration Into Southeast Asia
Arla Foods Ingredients (Denmark) has extended its distribution partnership with the Brenntag Group (Germany) to include Southeast Asia’s three largest food and nutrition markets. The expanded collaboration will see Brenntag distributing Arla Foods Ingredients’ extensive portfolio of protein ingredients in Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. It will cover a wide range of categories, including health foods, ...
ACG Unveils Patented Personalized Capsule Technology
ACG (India) introduced its world-first Personalized Capsule Machine (PCM) – a patented technology that creates custom-formulated supplement capsules tailored to individual needs on demand. The PCM merges real-time health data, precision dosing and automated capsule production to create individualized supplements. Through an exclusive partnership with pioneers in personalized supplement development, Art of You (AoY), ACG’s ...
Arla Foods Ingredients and Alchemy Agencies Sign Distribution Agreement
Arla Foods Ingredients (Denmark) and Alchemy Agencies (New Zealand) have announced a new distribution partnership to serve the performance nutrition market in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. The distribution agreement will primarily focus on Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). It supports Arla Foods Ingredients’ strategy to expand sales in Southeast Asia and in ...
NPA Responds to Taurine Study
In a new study, published in the journal Nature, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center said that they identified taurine, which is made naturally in the body and consumed through some foods, as a key regulator of myeloid cancers such as leukemia. The Wilmot Cancer Institute investigators at the University of Rochester were ...
BGG Announces New Investment at Astaxanthin Plant
BGG is expanding and enhancing its astaxanthin manufacturing facilities in China to boost production efficiency, quality, innovation and sustainability. The 100 percent glass-tube photobioreactor microalgae platform in Yunnan Province, the largest of its kind in the world, according to the company, will now incorporate the entire value chain. As a result, farming, extraction, drying, packaging ...
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