NIE Features
Partnering For Private Label
In an effort to live healthier lives, many Americans have added dietary supplements to their daily regimens in addition to eating “better.” But as the economy has become shaky in recent years, it has forced them to reevaluate their spending habits and turn to private label products as an alternative to get what they seek ...
Potent Packaging, Made Naturally
As manufacturers, retailers and consumers all look for more eco-friendly packaging, suppliers continue to innovate environmentally conscious solutions.While the worlds of business, activism and academia use the concept of sustainability to incorporate economic, social and environmental issues into one tidy concept, according to market researcher The Hartman Group, most consumers understand its underlying values to ...
NDI Update
Industry offers reaction to the FDA NDI draft guidance, NDIN experiences and suggestions for proceeding until a finalized version is put forth.Since the 1994 passing of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), the industry has had limited guidance on the statute requiring the submission of new dietary ingredient notifications (NDINs) to the U.S. ...
Delivering Results
As distribution is a vital link in the supply chain, NIE offers case studies highlighting strategic partnerships that have brought innovative products to market.Entering the Omega Market TogetherIn 2011, TSI (USA), Inc., a Montanabased distributor with nutraceutical products sold in more than 30 countries that credits itself as never having been a typical distributor, was ...
Antioxidant Nation
Condition-specific antioxidants become the focus as popularity continues to grow.An endorsement from TV’s Dr. Oz can do wonders for a product. The phenomenon, know as the “Dr. Oz Effect,” can send viewers of his television show to the health food store at the mere mention of a certain ingredient, even though he refuses to endorse ...
Providing Efficacy In Theory And Practice
Researchers, suppliers and manufacturers are stepping up efforts to prove ingredient efficacy—but it’s often consumers who have the last word.While it may have specific meanings in different fields, the definition of the word “efficacy” is the power to produce an effect. In the supplement industry, how suppliers, scientists, manufacturers and, ultimately, consumers perceive the effect ...
2012 Science Of Supplements: Spring Issue
A Manufacturers’ Guide to Ingredients, Products and ServicesFor A decade, the Nutrition Industry Executive Science of Supplements section has been crafted to help manufacturers gain a better understanding of the ingredients and services available that can make their products stand out in a crowded market. It gives the magazine’s advertisers an opportunity to describe in ...
Focus On Food Safety
NIE discusses the implications posed by FSMA with industry representatives, and their work to meet the challenges head on.In 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a “Final Rule,” establishing FDA regulations, which require current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) for dietary supplements (21 CFR 111). The final rule addresses in particular the identity, ...
Slimming Down, Safely
The weight management category is as strong as ever, and science-based ingredients are a top priority for manufacturers and consumers.Adiverse range of American consumers are Increasingly focused on weight loss and weight maintenance within a broadening context of personal health and lifestyle issues. More specifically, according to the National Institute of Health (NIH), 66 percent ...
Plant Expansions
Optimistic business plans and environmental concerns are just some of the considerations when companies decide to ramp up their plants’ capacities.EConomists were a bit more optimistic about the U.S. economy as 2011 came to a close— but only a bit.According to CNNMoney, a December 2011 survey of 20 top economists found their fear of the ...
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