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Science Mag Rejects Dr. Bronner’s Advertorial on GMOs
As part of Dr. Bronner’s GMO labeling advocacy, just prior to the momentous vote in Oregon, the company placed an advertorial in major nationally syndicated magazines including Harper’s, Scientific American, New Yorker, The Nation, but Science magazine refused to run the ad. The advertorial discusses the rise in pesticide inputs precipitated by GMOs. “For example, the ...
Prominent Health Analyst to Speak at CRN’s Conference
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) announced that Susan Dentzer, analyst on Health, PBS News Hour and senior policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will speak during the closing “Breakfast With…” session at The Conference: CRN’s Annual Symposium for the Dietary Supplement Industry. Dentzer will provide expert analysis on the current state of ...
Neptune Signs Agreement with BlueOcean Nutrascience
Canada-based Neptune Technologies & Bioresources Inc. announced the signing of an exclusive worldwide, royalty-bearing, non-transferable, license agreement with Canada-based BlueOcean Nutrascience Inc. under Neptune’s composition and extraction patents covering the production and sale of marine-derived oil products containing phospholipids. According to Neptune, the license allows BlueOcean and its shrimp joint venture affiliate to produce and ...
Vets Plus Achieves Safe Quality Food Level 3 Certification
Global animal health company Vets Plus, Inc. (Menomonie, WI) has received SQF (Safe Quality Food) Code 7.2 Level 3 certification for manufacture of dietary supplements after a rigorous audit of the manufacturing facilities for food safety and quality management systems, reported the company. This is the highest level of certification standards set by the Safe ...
NPA and AHPA Support FDA Efforts on Adulterated Dietary Supplements
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has made it very clear that it will crack down on manufacturers selling adulterated products. Daniel Fabricant, PhD, executive director and CEO, NPA, who was the former director of the Division of Dietary Supplement Programs at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), commented on a new report in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), in which ...
Authors Retract Green Coffee Bean Diet Paper Touted by Dr. Oz
According to Retraction Watch report, two authors of a 2012 paper cited on The Dr. Oz Show, which made claims about green coffee bean extract’s abilities to help people lose weight, have retracted it. The study’s sponsors, Joe Vinson and Bryan Burnham, cannot assure the validity of the data so so they are retracting the paper, reported Retraction Watch, noting ...
Ingredion to Acquire Penford to Expand Portfolio
Ingredion Incorporated (Westchester, IL) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Penford Corporation, a U.S.-based leader in specialty ingredients for food and non-food applications. Ilene Gordon, chairman and CEO, Ingredion, said the acquisition is another step in executing our strategic blueprint for growth. “It expands our higher-value specialty portfolio, establishes manufacturing of ...
Stevia’s Bitterness Removed Using New All Natural Process
An all-natural process developed to remove the bitter metallic aftertaste from the plant-based sweetener stevia was announced by MycoTechnology, Inc. at the SupplySide West convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The new process, MycoZyme, uses a mushroom-based enzymatic method to yield a pleasant-tasting, zero calorie sweetener, reported MycoZyme, noting unlike past stevia-based products, this sweetener has ...
American Egg Board Offers Solutions for Gluten-free Compliance
American Egg Board (AEB, Park Ridge, IL) is releasing a new white paper detailing the functional benefits REAL egg ingredients provide to gluten-free formulating. According to the board, this timely paper coincides with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory deadline regarding gluten-free food labeling which went into effect on Aug., 2014, and the FDA ...
ABC Scientist to Speak at World Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine Conference
The American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and the City of Houston invite health care specialists to the upcoming World Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine Conference in Texas. American Botanical Council Chief Science Officer Stefan Gafner, PhD, will give a presentation on Adulteration of Botanical Ingredients and Analytical Technologies to Determine the Authenticity of Herbal ...
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