omega-3s
Go With Your Heart
Ingredient advancements are providing manufacturers key opportunities to support consumers’ heart health goals. When selecting ingredients and formulating new products, manufacturers take pride in focusing on efficacy and safety. The Krill Advantage Superba Krill Oil, produced by Aker BioMarine (Oslo, Norway), has many heart health benefit applications due to its natural composition of omega-3s, EPA ...
Global CRO Nutrasource Announces Expansion to Clinical Trials Facility
Nutrasource (Guelph, ON, Canada), a global full-service contract research organization (CRO) has announced a new expansion to its on-site clinical trials facility located in Ontario. The clinic is just one of the organization’s sites within its global network of more than 400 clinical trial sites. Since the expansion—a significant extension of the prior 2019 upgrade—Nutrasource ...
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 ...
DailyNutra Certified by Friend of the Sea for Sustainable Krill Oil Practices
Friend of the Sea has announced that it has certified DailyNutra for sustainable production of products that contain krill oil for omega-3s. With this certification, DailyNutra can display the Friend of the Sea eco-label on its krill oil products. “As the market for nutritional products embraces omega-3s, we are seeing producers step up and commit to ...
EFAs: This is No Fish Story
Omega-3s have weathered storms and are still full speed ahead. Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are today among the most popular and widely used ingredients for finished products and food fortification in the U.S. and globally. They enjoy broad support by consumers, public health agencies and medical bodies. In 1929, the essentiality of alpha linolenic acid ...
Heart on the Line
As cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S., suppliers and manufacturers seek heart health ingredients that address prevention and even damage reversal. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States and ...
GOED Launches Consumer Website
The Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED, Salt Lake City, UT) launched a consumer website at www.alwaysomega3s.com. According to the organization, the site is designed to be an independent educational website to educate consumers about the benefits of omega-3s and was commissioned by a coalition of omega-3 manufacturers as part of a campaign ...
The Veggie Alternative
As consumer awareness of EFA importance grows, many are opting for omega-3 fatty acids from vegan or vegetarian sources.Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are a necessary part of a person’s diet.Omega-3 fatty acids support the immune, nervous, cardiovascular and reproductive systems as well as eye and brain health. Further, more studies and research are being conducted ...
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