Articles by Shari Barbanel
Fuji Health Science Announces Name Change
Fuji Health Science, Inc. (Burlington, NJ) has announced that as of September 1, 2016, the name of the entity has become Fuji Chemical Industries USA, Inc. to align fully in identity and mission with its parent company, Fuji Chemical Industries Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in pharmaceutical ingredients and biotechnology. “As we celebrate our 70th ...
NPA Keeps Up Pressure on Puerto Rico Over New Fees
The Natural Products Association (NPA) recently urged the Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico to highlight the damaging effects of Administrative Order 346, which established barriers to retailers and distributors of natural products in Puerto Rico through new fees and unnecessary regulations, making it difficult for products to reach consumers. The Task Force is scheduled ...
FDA Considering Vinpocetine Ineligible as a Dietary Ingredient
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released an unprecedented Federal Register (FR) notice (Docket No: FDA-2016-N-2523) with major implications for acknowledged new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications. FDA appears to be attempting to shift the burden of demonstrating reasonable expectation of safety for vinpocetine on the industry by using the hook that it can’t ...
Milk Specialties Global Acquires Wisconsin Facility
Milk Specialties Global (Eden Prairie, MN) announced that it has acquired the Saputo facility in Monroe, WI. This acquisition will allow Milk Specialties to grow its whey protein ingredients through the company’s advanced Ultrafiltration process, while enhancing Milk Specialties commitment to its strategic supply partners. The Monroe facility is a whey processing plant located in ...
DSM and NCN Invite Entrepreneurs to Innovation & Partnering Conference
Royal DSM and Nutrition Capital Network (NCN) invite entrepreneurs and innovators to apply to present their company at an engaging Innovation Conference with top DSM executives on November 1-3, 2016 at DSM’s North American headquarters in Parsippany, NJ. This conference offers entrepreneurs unique insights into how corporate innovation and venturing organizations evaluate and work with ...
CRN Attends BlogHer16, the Leading Conference for Female Bloggers
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) served as an exhibiting sponsor at #BlogHer16: Experts Among Us, the largest conference worldwide that brings together women bloggers, that took place August 4-6 in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to exhibiting at the three-day event, CRN hosted a special luncheon on August 5, entitled “Get Healthy; Get Wise,” ...
OmniActive Wins Big With ASSOCHAM
OmniActive Health Technologies (Morristown, NJ) was presented two ASSOCHAM (The Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India) Nutraceutical and Herbal Excellence Awards—“Best Quality Management Company of the Year” and “Nutraceutical Export Company of the Year”—on July 5, 2016 (New Delhi, India) during the National Symposium-cum-Awards ceremony on “Nutraceuticals, Herbals & Functional Foods.” ASSOCHAM is ...
Utah Attorney General Visits Twinlab Manufacturing Facility
Twinlab (American Fork, UT) recently hosted Utah’s Attorney General Sean Reyes in a tour of the company’s state-of-the-art, 178,000-square-foot laboratories and production facilities located at the base of the Wasatch Range. “We’re delighted that Attorney General Reyes could visit our research and production facilities, where our daily mission is to help people feel better, look ...
CRN-I Announces 2016 Symposium in Conjunction With Codex Meeting
The Council for Responsible Nutrition-International (CRN-I), the international arm of the U.S.-based Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), has announced its seventh annual scientific symposium, “Optimal Nutrition and the Ever-Changing Dietary Landscape,” will be held December 2 at Le Meridien Hotel in Hamburg, Germany, just prior to the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special ...
Lonza Acquires InterHealth Nutraceuticals
Lonza (Basel, Switzerland) has announced that it has agreed to acquire California-based InterHealth Nutraceuticals, Inc., a leader in research, development, manufacture and marketing of value-added nutritional ingredients for use in dietary supplements, based in Benicia, CA (USA). InterHealth is a portfolio company of Kainos Capital. “With this acquisition Lonza is taking a further step along ...
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