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Hosoda Nutritional and B&D Nutritional Ingredients Announce New U.S. Distribution Agreement
Hosoda Nutritional (Fukui, Japan) and B&D Ingredients (Vista, CA) announced a new agreement providing exclusive rights for B&D Nutritional Ingredients to market and sell Hosada Nutritional’s Melinjo Dimer Resveratrol in the U.S. market. Shinya Hosoda, CEO of Hosoda announced the signing of a a multi-year distribution agreement, noting the companies patented Melinjo Dimer Resveratrol is ...
Nutraceuticals International Group Partners with Nutrachem Mexico
Nutraceuticals International Group (NIG, Bloomingdale, NJ) announced the signing of a long-term partnership agreement with Nutrachem of Mexico. According to NIG, Nutrachem will be the exclusive, authorized distributor of NIG’s botanicals & herbs, flavors and nutritional ingredients which also includes all of NIG’s proprietary and patented ingredients. Nutrachem specializes in marketing and selling nutritional ingredients ...
Sabinsa Cautions Against Low Quality ForsLean Knockoffs
Introducing a product just in time for legitimate dietary supplement manufacturers to differentiate their products from the inferior spam-touted forskolin products driven by Dr. Oz and SPAM emails, Sabinsa (East Windsor, NJ) reported the release of ForsLean® Soft Extracts. Calling the new product a high purity viscous paste of coleus extract created by the company ...
Study on Sabinsa’s Boswellia Cream Published
Sabinsa’s (East Windsor, NJ) Boswellia Cream study results have been released in Clinical Dermatology, suggesting the product is helpful in the treatment of psoriasis. The cream of Boswellia serrata Roxb extract standardized for 5 percent of 95 percent 3-O-Acetyl-11-Keto Beta Boswellic Acid (AKBBA) was studied in an open label, multi centered phase III clinical trial, ...
KeHE Purchases Nature’s Best
KeHE Distributors (Naperville, Il) formerly announced the purchase of Nature’s Best (Brea, CA), a distributor of health and natural food products. “We are thrilled to welcome Nature’s Best into the KeHE family. The addition of this great group of people and long-standing tradition of service fits perfectly into our operations,” said Brandon Barnholt, president and ...
New England Journal of Medicine Reports on Niacin Safety and Effectiveness
Recent studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine are adding to concerns about the safety and effectiveness of niacin, which is used for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. According to a report in the New York Times, scientists designed these two new studies to determine whether niacin helped patients avoid heart disease and ...
Kroger to Purchase Vitacost.com for $280 Million
The Kroger Co. (Cincinnati, OH) announced it would purchase Vitacost.com (Boca Raton, FL) for $280 million, according to a Kroger news report. Vitacost.com brings to Kroger its strong position as one of the largest eCommerce companies in the nutrition and healthy living market, a team with extensive eCommerce experience, and a substantial platform that includes ...
BergaMet Found to Help Fight Fatty Liver Disease
Two European universities showed that a highly concentrated proprietary extract of the Calabrian bergamot fruit (38 percent citrus bergamot extract, BergaMet™/Nathealthsolutions) improves both liver structure and function in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Professor G. Rosano, with the San Raffaelle Pisana Clinic in Rome, said the fruity can help those who suffer from the ...
U.S.-China Health Products Association Newsletter has Worldwide Audience
The U.S. – China Health Products Association (USCHPA) has a mission to work toward the development of China’s natural health product industry by advocating for a more open and transparent regulatory environment. Over the last four years, USCHPA has grown to become the largest foreign natural health product association operating in China, reported the association, ...
CRN Adds Five New Member Companies
The Council of Responsible Nutrition (CRN, Washington D.C.) announced five new companies have been added to the membership roster. Steve Mister, CRN’s president and CEO, said, the association’s goal is to seek out companies that are committed to the long-term, sustainable and responsible growth of the industry. “We’re proud to have these new companies with ...
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