Articles by Shari Barbanel
PLT Health Solutions Launches Transparency & Trust-building Initiative
PLT Health Solutions, Inc. (Morristown, NJ) announced it has launched a formal transparency and trust-building initiative for its ingredient portfolio. The initiative is designed to support emerging opportunities for food, beverage and supplement companies that can deliver assured ingredient quality, demonstrable efficacy, and clean labels in consumer products. Called PLT360, the initiative has a major ...
Capsugel Expands DRcaps Capsule Platform
Capsugel (Morristown, NJ) has announced that it has developed a technology that makes its vegetarian, acid-resistant DRcaps hard capsules suitable for liquid-fill applications. As a result, Capsugel’s customers can now bring the benefits of DRcaps capsules—including resistance to stomach acid and taste/odor-masking—to liquid-based dietary supplements. This new offering will be featured at SupplySide West 2015 ...
Sabinsa Honored With Two Pharmexcil Awards
Sami Labs (India), the manufacturing arm of Sabinsa Corporation (East Windsor, NJ), has received two Pharmexcil Awards for 2014-2015 in the Herbals category: the Silver Award for Patents and the Outstanding Export Performance Award. Pharmexcil, a ministry set up by the Government of India as a gateway to global pharma trade, bestows annual awards to ...
NSF Launches Suite of GMO Transparency Services
Responding to industry and consumer demand for non-GMO (genetically modified organism) certification options, NSF International has launched NSF Non-GMO True North. NSF International’s newest certification offering expands its suite of GMO transparency services for retailers, manufacturers, suppliers and producers. The new non-GMO certification, available through NSF International’s Consumer Values Verified Program, is offered in addition to ...
NYAG Targets Devil’s Claw Supplements, Industry Responds
On September 9, New York Attorney General (NYAG) Eric Schneiderman sent cease-and-desist letters to 13 companies that sell devil’s claw herbal dietary supplements informing them that their products containing devil’s claw material were tested at the New York Botanical Garden using DNA technology. The results showed that the devil’s claw was a different botanical species ...
ADM Names New Leaders of Wild Flavors, Specialty Commodities Businesses
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM, Chicago, IL) recently named Kenneth Campbell president of the company’s WILD Flavors business, and named Manda Tweten president of the company’s Specialty Commodities business (SCI). Campbell, who most recently served as president of ADM’s Specialty Commodities business, brings 18 years of experience with ADM to his new role, having previously ...
Industry Calls on FDA to Create Separate Office of Dietary Supplements
The Natural Products Association (NPA) along with the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) and the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) have called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to elevate their Division of Dietary Supplement Programs (DDSP) in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition to an ...
Sabinsa Facility Receives Foreign Site Number From Canada
Sabinsa Corporation (East Windsor, NJ) has received a Foreign Site Registration Number for its Payson, UT finished product-manufacturing facility from Health Canada’s Natural and Non Prescription Health Product Directorate (NNHPD). This Sabinsa manufacturing plant was recently assessed by NHPD for Natural Health Product’s GMP (good manufacturing practice) standards and quality system and was deemed as ...
Industry Attorney Robert Ullman Passes
Bob Ullman December 26, 1933 – August 15, 2015 Industry attorney Robert Ullman, has died, leaving a legacy of significant contributions to shaping the dietary supplements industry as we know it today. Bob and his wife Joan died together in an accident on August 15, 2015, leaving behind their son Marc Ullman and daughter Gail ...
Organizations Join to Help Ensure Adequate Iodine Intake in Pregnant and Lactating Women
All pregnant and lactating women should supplement their diet with a daily multivitamin that contains 150 mcg of iodine, according to a recent article published in Natural Medicine Journal, authored by three scientists at the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN). This science-based recommendation is supported by the American Thyroid Association, Endocrine Society and the American ...
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