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Olympians Embrace Nutritional Supplements
Sports federations and hundreds of individual athletes from around the world have embraced dietary supplements as they headed to Rio for this Summer’s Olympic games. At least 14 Olympic sports federations in the U.S. and around the world have recently signed sponsorship deals with sports nutrition companies, including USA Gymnastics and USA Track & Field, which recently ...
NPA Launches Warning Letter Database for Member Companies
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has announced the launch of its highly anticipated warning letter database. This database will be a free online tool for NPA members to view violations against the dietary supplement good manufacturing practices (GMPs), which are deemed as ‘technical adulterations’ by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration), dietary supplement labeling ...
Ancon International and B&D Nutritional Ingredients Form Alliance
Ancon International (Irvine, CA) and B&D Nutritional Ingredients (Vista, CA) announced an agreement to market food-derived peptides in the U.S. during the recent 4th Annual International Conference on Food-Derived Peptides, held in China. This agreement will bring to the U.S. market a series of food-derived oligopeptides, which are an advantaged delivery concept for proteins and ...
CRN Approves of Obama’s Swift Signing of Federal GMO Labeling Bill
In response to President Obama’s July 29 signing of S.764, the “Biotech Labeling Solutions Act,” the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) issued the following statement: “We extend thanks to President Obama for his signature of S.764. This law is a constructive and practical solution for consumers seeking to educate themselves about whether food products contain ...
Ganeden Announces AVOKE as Probiotic Innovation Jumpstart Winner
It was an intensely competitive competition between entrepreneurs to be selected for the most innovative probiotic food concept, and after careful deliberation a winner has been chosen. A panel of industry experts named AVOKE as the top choice for the startup to win Ganeden’s (Mayfield Heights, OH) Probiotic Innovation Jumpstart program—with entrant Daniel Karsevar taking ...
Herbalife to Restructure and Pay $200 M to Settle FTC Charges
Herbalife International of America, Inc., Herbalife International, Inc. and Herbalife, Ltd. have agreed to fully restructure their U.S. business operations and pay $200 million to compensate consumers to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that the companies deceived consumers into believing they could earn substantial money selling diet, nutritional supplement and personal care products. In ...
AAK Acquires CalOils
AAK (Edison, NJ) has acquired the leading West Coast-based vegetable oils company California Oils Corporation from Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan. California Oils Corporation, also known as CalOils, had last year revenues of approximately SEK 1,350 million ($157 million) and a volume of approximately 110,000 MT, with 65 employees. “A strong presence on the U.S. West ...
Alkemist Labs, USP & Phenomenex Host Dietary Supplement Chromatography Forum
Alkemist Labs (Costa Mesa, CA) United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP, Rockville, MD) and Phenomenex Inc. will present a “Southern California Dietary Supplements Chromatography Forum” on Thursday July 28, 2016. This free event will be hosted at the Phenomenex office in Torrance, CA from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Experts will discuss current challenges and opportunities ...
NPA Seeks Vitamin Inclusion in WIC Program
The Natural Products Association (NPA) recently submitted comments to the Institute of Medicine advocating for expanding access to vitamins for low-income mothers and children. NPA submitted its comments as part of a Congressionally mandated study that will examine the impact of expanding the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC) to cover certain ...
GMO Food Labeling Bill Passes In The Senate
According to a Reuters report, the U.S. Senate on Thursday, July 7, approved legislation that would for the first time require food to carry labels listing genetically-modified ingredients, which labeling supporters say could create loopholes for some U.S. crops. The Senate voted 63-30 for the bill that would display GMO contents with words, pictures or ...
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