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Navigating A Product Recall—Don’t Be Scared, Be Prepared
A product recall can be one of the most traumatic events in any company’s history. Recalls involve contacting customers and perhaps even the public at large and telling them that something has gone wrong with your product(s), that they need to stop using/eating the effected product, and that it needs to be returned to you ...
Essential Fatty Acids
Consumers are looking beyond their traditional benefits and focusing on overall wellness. The panel: Sarah Christianslund, Product Marketing Manager, Pelagia AS/EPAX Norway AS, Oslo, Norway, https://pelagia.com Greg Cumberford, Vice President Science & Regulatory, Natures Crops International, Winston-Salem, NC, www.ahiflower.com Julianne Gardner, Marketing & Communications Coordinator, Stratum Nutrition, Carthage, MO, www.stratumnutrition.com Ben Kelly, President, Algarithm Ingredients, ...
Moving Toward Pain Free
Consumers want fast-acting natural solutions backed by clinical research. Whether acute or chronic, most people have suffered from pain and/or inflammation at some point in their lives. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2021, 20.9 percent of adults experienced chronic pain (pain lasting at least three months) and 6.9 percent ...
Ashwagandha—The Perfect Ingredient for a Stressed-out World
We are living through times of huge stress. As Innova Market Insights noted in 2020, “Recent events have had a significant effect on mental wellbeing, with many people facing increased rates of anxiety off the back of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Since then, of course, new sources of uncertainty have emerged—inflation, economic volatility and a seemingly ...
Rafael Costa, Vice President of the Americas
ACG North America 262 Old New Brunswick Rd., #A Piscataway, NJ 08854 Website: www.acg-world.com Rafael Costa, ACG’s vice president of the Americas, has more than 28 years of leadership experience in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical sectors. He has led cross-functional divisions across diverse regions including North America and South America, overseeing customer service, sales, project ...
Developing Stand-out Immune Health Products for a Third of the U.S. Population
How blood sugar levels can impact immune health. Immune health has been, and will most likely be, one of the top reasons consumers seek supplementation. While other categories of supplements may be perceived as situational—sports and joint health products, for example—immune health seems to always be relevant no matter the individual or the time of ...
Understanding the HCP Spectrum of Influence on Supplement Brands: From Vitalists to Pragmatists
Whether you are a supplement brand that sells directly through health care professionals (HCPs) or that sells directly to consumers, you need to know what influences HCPs’ supplement decisions and recommendations. Why is that? Interest and engagement in integrative health and medicine are expanding rapidly. Forty-nine percent of adults believe in the efficacy of many ...
Consumers Are Tired of an ‘Impotent’ FDA
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a consumer advisory on “certain products marketed for sexual enhancement that have been found to contain hidden ingredients and might pose a significant health risk.” Most of the seven identified products are illegally marketed as dietary supplements despite containing illegal drug ingredients. These occasional consumer announcements ...
So, You Received a Demand Letter
Sometimes it’s fun checking the mail. Sometimes it isn’t. Like other industries, companies operating in the hyper-competitive natural products space may receive, from time to time, a demand letter from an attorney, outlining a purported legal claim by a consumer or competitor. While there is no immunity from such letters, knowledge is power and can ...
Plant-based: Trending or Here to Stay?
Increased consumer interest in plant-based and vegan products means this market is poised for continued growth. It used to be that a vegetarian diet meant eating foods like dried-out bean burgers and sprouts on whole-wheat bread. Now, the world of plant-based and vegan foods has opened tremendously. In the 70s, pulling into a Burger King ...
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