Articles by Shari Barbanel
NPA Seeks Vitamin Inclusion in WIC Program
The Natural Products Association (NPA) recently submitted comments to the Institute of Medicine advocating for expanding access to vitamins for low-income mothers and children. NPA submitted its comments as part of a Congressionally mandated study that will examine the impact of expanding the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC) to cover certain ...
Homeopathic Association Works with FDA to Educate Manufacturers
The American Association of Homeopathic Pharmacists’ (AAHP) latest educational webinar illustrates the homeopathic industry fostering a relationship with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ensure the highest quality of safe medicines to retailers, consumers and health practitioners across the U.S. Per the request of AAHP, the agency provided staff to present updates on its Compliance Policy for homeopathic products directly to ...
ChromaDex Receives Retraction and Apology from Author of Inaccurate Article
ChromaDex Corp. (Irvine, CA), a leading provider of proprietary science-backed technologies and analytical services for dietary supplement, food and beverage, skincare, sports nutrition and pharmaceutical products, announced that an article by Bleecker Street Research published on Seeking Alpha on June 20, 2016 has been removed and replaced with an apology from the author. The following ...
OnlineLabels.com Launches Free Tools to Make Product Label Updates Easier
OnlineLabels.com is updating and adding brand new tools and content for their users in response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcing new format changes to nutrition facts found on food labels. The label retailer recently re-launched their free nutrition label generator to include the new required format in order to ease the ...
Wilson Lau to Chair AHPA Board of Trustees
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) Executive Committee has appointed Wilson Lau as chair of the AHPA Board of Trustees until March 2017. Lau is the vice president of sales at nuherbs Company and has served on the AHPA board since 2008. He is also chair of AHPA’s Tea and Infusion Products Committee. “AHPA appreciates ...
HORN and Innovative Food Processors Partner
HORN (La Mirada, CA) has announced a new partnership with Innovative Food Processors, Inc. (IFP, Faribault, MN). HORN will represent IFP as its sales distributor throughout the Western and Southwestern U.S. territories, offering a line of specialty ingredients including IFP’s micro-encapsulated technology PrimeCAP and Insta*Thick agglomerated products. These ingredients offer unique functional solutions to a ...
Once Again Nut Butter Expands Peanut Facility
Once Again Nut Butter, an organic and natural nut butter manufacturer and nut ingredient supplier for 40 years, has announced the launch of its newly expanded peanut facility. On June 2, Once Again cut the ribbon on the facility in Nunda, NY. The employee-owned company located in the small rural community of Nunda (population of 800 ...
NPA Moves to Capitol Hill
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has officially moved to its new office located at 440 1st St. N.W., Washington D.C. The close proximity to Capitol Hill will allow for NPA to better serve its members by continuing to bolster its political and legislative efforts. NPA was previously located at Dupont Circle. While that location served its purpose ...
Allegiant Health Founder Recognized as Top CEO
Brian Z. Li, president and CEO of New York-based Allegiant Health, recently received the prestigious Long Island Business News Top CEO Award at the organization’s awards dinner held at Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, NY. Li received the Top CEO in recognition of his visionary leadership and business acumen as founder of Long Island’s ...
NPA Works to Repeal Puerto Rico Rule That Limits Access to Supplements
The Natural Products Association (NPA) is meeting with members of the House of Representatives to overturn an administrative order issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s Department of Health that would raise prices for dietary supplement and natural products consumers and adds requirements for retailers/distributors inconsistent with federal law. NPA is seeking to attach the ...
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