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Ingredion and Batory Foods Sign Ingredient Distribution Agreement
Ingredion Inc. (Westchester, IL) has announced the signing of a strategic distribution agreement with Batory Foods (Rosemont, IL). Effective May 24, 2020, the arrangement consolidates Ingredion’s distributor voice in Southern California to help food and beverage manufacturers get the ingredients they need to produce and bring their products to market, faster. Batory Foods will become ...
NutraBio Supports First Responders Nationwide
NutraBio Labs Inc., a dietary supplement manufacturer in Middlesex, NJ, has dedicated part of its GMP (good manufacturing practice) manufacturing facility to making an immune support supplement to donate to first responders nationwide. “First responders put themselves and their family’s lives in danger every day. They are true American heroes and we believe we have an obligation to ...
Alkemist Labs Issues Warning to Industry on “Dry Reporting”
Alkemist Labs (Garden Grove, CA) has found some ingredient suppliers and marketing companies have been altering valid lab reports and using those falsified reports to promote their products. The alterations have taken multiple forms, from changing or removing the client name to replacing the lot number, and have even gone so far as to change ...
Vitamin D Linked to Low Virus Death Rate, Study Finds
A new study has found an association between low average levels of vitamin D and high numbers of COVID-19 cases and mortality rates across 20 European countries. The research, led by Dr. Lee Smith of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU, U.K.) and Petre Cristian Ilie, lead urologist of Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, ...
Demand For Immunity Products Predicted to Be a New Norm
SIRIO Europe (Ayanda), the European headquarters of the SIRIO Group (Shanghai, China), a global nutraceutical contract development, innovation and manufacturing organization (CDiMO), said considerable worldwide demand for immunity products has accelerated in recent months due to Coronavirus, but it is also likely to deliver a permanent “new norm” of higher growth. “Already in Europe, we have ...
“Cardiovascular Calm” Messaging Has Consumer Appeal, Lycored Research Shows
The idea of “calm” resonates with consumers of products for cardiovascular wellness, research has shown. Lycored (Be’er Sheca, Israel) surveyed 505 men and women in the U.S. and the U.K. All were over the age of 50, the age group most likely to purchase supplements for cardiovascular wellness. They were asked what they saw as ...
Moderna and Lonza Join to Manufacture Moderna’s Vaccine Against Novel Coronavirus
Moderna, Inc., (Cambridge, MA) a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, and Lonza Ltd. (Basel, Switzerland) have announced a 10-year strategic collaboration agreement to enable larger scale manufacture of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine (mRNA-1273) against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and additional ...
AOAC Approves Method of Analysis for Cannabinoids in Hemp
AOAC International has announced that a liquid chromatography–diode array detection (LC-DAD) method previously approved as Official Method of Analysis 2018.11 for cannabinoids in cannabis plant materials, concentrates, and oils, is now approved for hemp. “Until now, no globally recognized method for validating the potency of hemp was available to laboratories,” said Scott Coates, program lead for ...
OmegaQuant Partners with Standard Process to Offer Omega-3 Index Test Kit
OmegaQuant (Sioux Falls, SD) has partnered with Standard Process (Palmyra, WI) to offer an Omega-3 Index testing kit to help health care practitioners better educate and support patients’ health. By partnering with OmegaQuant, the premier lab for Omega-3 Index testing, Standard Process is better able to help patients support conditions related to cardiovascular health, brain health, and a ...
NSF International to Perform Audits to New GRMA Standards
NSF International and the Global Retailer and Manufacturer Alliance (GRMA) have signed an agreement for NSF International to serve as a certifying body providing audits to GRMA member suppliers. The agreement is the culmination of conversations that began between the two organizations at the founding of the GRMA in 2014. “Since the GRMA’s inception, the ...
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