Articles by Shari Barbanel
HHS and USDA Release New Dietary Guidelines
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Sylvia M. Burwell and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack have released updated nutritional guidelines that encourage Americans to adopt a series of science-based recommendations to improve how they eat to reduce obesity and prevent chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, hypertension and ...
OTA Applauds Organic Exemption From Commodity Check-offs
The recent announcement that all organic farmers and handlers in the United States would be able to choose whether to pay into and participate in conventional commodity check-off programs or opt out of those programs and put their dollars into a proposed organic research and promotion order now under review by the U.S. Department of ...
ChromaDex and ALI Collaborate on Identity Test for Glandular Related Ingredients
ChromaDex Corp. (Irvine, CA) and American Laboratories, Inc. (ALI, Omaha, NE) has announced the release of a Fourier Transform Near Infrared (FT-NIR) based identification method for the positive identification of desiccated bovine and porcine glandular tissues used in nutritional product formulations. ChromaDex has developed a FT-NIR algorithm and cluster based analysis model under its ComplyID ...
Product Safety Expert Debunks Research Questioning the Safety of Supplements
Dr. Richard Kingston told an audience of almost 50 congressional staffers, industry executives and public affairs professionals that research purporting to raise significant questions regarding the safety of dietary supplements often lacks context and appropriate data to draw meaningful conclusions, which contributes to the misinterpretations of the new science by the consumer media covering those ...
FDA Updates Webpages to Reduce Confusion Between Legal Supplements and Illegal Drug-Spiked Products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently updated language on several pages of its website to more accurately describe illegal, drug-spike products and to remove references to these as dietary supplements after the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) requested the changes. FDA usually uses terms such as “marketed as dietary supplements” or “masquerading as ...
Deerland Enzymes Establishes Scholarship and Research Fund
Deerland Enzymes (Kennesaw, GA) has announced the establishment of the Deerland Enzymes Opportunity Scholarship and Research Support fund in partnership with Kennesaw State University (KSU) in Georgia. Deerland Enzymes established these funds with the local university in order to provide financial support to deserving and qualified students in the College of Science and Mathematics. The ...
DDW Expands Coloring Food Solutions
Kentucky-based DDW, The Color House, recently acquired the KleurCraft portfolio of coloring foods, custom formulations and related technology from SVZ International B.V. The accord enables DDW—a global manufacturer of natural colors, caramel colors and burnt sugars—to expand in the thriving ingredient segment of coloring foods. The acquisition strengthens DDW’s solutions across multiple hues for customers. ...
FDA Determines GE Salmon Safe
“After an exhaustive and rigorous scientific review, FDA [Food and Drug Administration] has arrived at the decision that AquAdvantage salmon is as safe to eat as any non-genetically engineered (GE) Atlantic salmon, and also as nutritious,” the FDA report stated. The FDA scientists evaluated data submitted by the manufacturer, AquaBounty Technologies, and other peer-reviewed data, ...
NPA Welcomes FDA Process to Define “Natural”
The Natural Products Association (NPA) responded to recent steps taken by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to define the term “natural” on food labels. “It’s about time that natural be defined by experts and no Madison Avenue ad executives,” said Dan Fabricant, PhD, executive director and CEO of the NPA. “NPA strongly supports ...
Lipogen Builds Phospholipids R&D Center
Lipogen Ltd. (Haifa, Israel) is expanding its production facilities and building a new phospholipids research and development center in response to a rapid jump in sales of brain and stress health solutions in Q1-Q3 2015. Lipogen invested $2.6 million (U.S.) in building two additional production lines for PhosphatidylSerine (PS) and Phosphatidic Acid (PA). The company ...
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