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ExcelVite Collaborates with USP in Developing a Monograph for Carotenes
PIC/S cGMP (current good manufacturing practice)-certified palm carotene producer ExcelVite (Edison, NJ) announced that a collaboration with USP (U.S. Pharmacoepia) resulted in the publication of a new plant carotenes monograph. The new USP Carotenes monograph was a collaborative effort between ExcelVite, USP and its Non-Botanical Dietary Supplements Expert Committee. It was developed based on palm ...
CVS Launches “Tested to Be Trusted” Program for Supplements
CVS Pharmacy (Rhode Island), the retail division of CVS Health, announced the launch of “Tested to Be Trusted,” a program requiring third-party testing of all vitamins and supplements sold in-store and online to confirm the accuracy of the dietary ingredients listed on the supplement facts panel and to confirm products are free from certain additives ...
Valensa Applauds Florida’s New Requirements for Harvesting Saw Palmetto Berries
Valensa International (Eustis, FL) applauds the new rule from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), Division of Plant Industry, which requires all landowners and harvesters of saw palmetto berries to have a Native Plant Harvesting Permit as of July 17, 2018. According to Larry McCarty, head of manufacturing and supply chain at ...
USP Announces Updated Ingredient Verification Program
USP (United States Pharmacopeia) has updated its Ingredient Verification Programs (IVP), services that help companies ensure they meet quality standards for ingredients used in the manufacture of dietary supplements and drug products. USP has IVPs for dietary ingredients (IVP-DI), for excipients (IVP-E) and for active pharmaceutical ingredients (IVP-API). Manufacturers of finished dietary supplements and drug ...
Lallemand Receives USP’s GMP Certificate for Canadian Production Facilities
Lallemand Health Solutions announced that both of its Canadian probiotic production plants in Montreal and Mirabel successfully passed the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Quality Systems Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) audit. The company thus has become the first probiotic production facilities to receive this quality certificate. “Such achievement illustrates our long-standing commitment to quality and demonstrates ...
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 ...
Gaia Herbs Presents ID Validation Program at USP Workshop
Gaia Herbs (Brevard, NC) was the only natural products industry representative invited to present at a U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) workshop hosted last week at the agency’s national headquarters in Rockville, MD, reported the company. The event, titled “DNA Methods for Quality Control of Botanical Products,” was co-organized by several other government departments including the ...
USP Issues Testing Standards Monograph for GanedenBC30
Cleveland, Ohio-based Ganeden Biotech announced GanedenBC30 (Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086) is the first probiotic to have a monograph published in the Food Chemical Codex (FCC) from the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), meaning now there are strain-specific standards for testing the identity, concentration and purity of the probiotic GanedenBC30. The USP is a scientific nonprofit organization ...
2014 Science Of Supplements
Since 2002, Nutrition Industry Executive’s Science of Supplements section has been offered to help manufacturers gain a better understanding of the ingredients and services available that can make their products stand out. It gives the magazine’s advertisers an opportunity to describe the research that substantiates the safety and efficacy of their branded ingredients, products and ...
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