NIE 2021 05 06
Probiotics: What’s Inside Is Alive
Consumer interest in probiotics is growing—and so is the body of scientific research supporting their use and revealing the expanding health benefits of these products. Understanding the unique nature of probiotics starts with knowing that these ingredients are actually alive. Probiotics can deliver millions, or sometimes, billions of living organisms and can help the body ...
Collette Kakuk, Vice President of Global Marketing
Layn USA 20250 Acacia St., #200 Newport Beach, CA 92660 Phone: (949) 387-6840 Email: [email protected] Website: www.layncorp.com Layn Natural Ingredients is one of the world’s largest innovators of natural botanical extract ingredients and solutions serving the biggest brands in food, beverage, flavor, nutraceutical, personal care, animals and pets for more than 25 years. Truly vertically ...
Navigating the Supply Chain in a Perfect Storm
As we survey the current supply chain landscape approaching mid-year 2021, the nutrition industry has been able to largely overcome many of the initial raw materials challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ability to improvise strategies and diversify raw materials sourcing through an abundance of different global suppliers, distributors and manufacturers who have ...
Why Digitally Native Supplement Brands Are Disrupting the Market
The pandemic has been a change catalyst for the supplement industry. Beginning in early spring 2020, supplement brands shifted their short-term focus from sales and marketing to maintaining inventory and protecting their supply chains. Both legacy and emerging supplement brands experienced unprecedented growth. The 2019 conversation about CBD ended abruptly and switched to immunity. An ...
Granulation for the Nutritional Market
The term “granulated” is derived from the Latin word “granulatum” meaning grained, a process that evolved from delivering powder by hand rolling into a pill by using honey or sugar and had been used for centuries to combine ingredients that could not be blended together. Today, granulation is the process of joining fine powders into ...
Protein Found to be Associated with Menopausal Bone Loss
It is known that women who have reached menopause are at a greater risk of developing brittle bones, which can lead to bone fractures and long-term impairment of mobility. Studies have shown a link between reduced bone density and low estrogen levels due to menopause, but the basis for this link is unclear. Researchers at ...
Cognitive Health Q&A with Jennifer Montgomery
How long has your company been producing ingredients for the nutritional/dietary supplement industry? How long have cognitive health ingredients been a part of your program? We recently launched HOWARU Calm earlier this year which was our first ever probiotic for brain health. What is interesting about this product is that it has been shown to ...
Regulatory Musings and Compliance Cogitations with Russ Michelson
Nutrition Industry Executive (NIE) Magazine had a virtual sit-down with Russ Michelson, Global Regulatory Director, VMS, Reckitt, Parsippany, NJ, www.reckitt.com NIE: At a regulatory summit in the latter part of last year Steven Tave, director of the FDA’s Office of Strategic Planning and Operational Policy, stated that there was a “regulatory gap” in the dietary ...
A Mind/Body Connection for Cognitive Health
Maintaining and improving cognitive health has become a major concern for consumers of all ages. Ingredient manufacturers have developed natural solutions to address both the mind and body. The natural health care community and society as a whole are increasingly recognizing that mental health is just as important as physical health. Physical issues and ailments ...
Compliance and Improving Quality—Assessing an Industry’s Vital Signs
The panel: Gene Bruno, Vice President of Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, Twinlab, Boca Raton, FL, www.twinlab.com Dieng Bui, Vice President of Quality & Regulatory Affairs, Lief Labs, Valencia, CA, https://lieflabs.com Nena Dockery, Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Manager, Stratum Nutrition, Carthage, MO, www.stratumnutrition.com Stefan Gafner, PhD, American Botanical Council, Austin, TX, http://herbalgram.org Haley Gershon, Marketing Manager, ...
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