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COVID-19 and the Dietary Supplement Supply Chain: Surviving Supply Chain Shocks Long-TermHow have rapidly changing demand cycles impacted dietary supplement supply chains? And how are companies arming themselves and their supply chains to manage future change? Time and Date: Sept. 24, 2020 at 2pm EDT | 1pm CDT | 11am PDT On demand available after airing until Sept. 24, 2021.
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Clean beauty: How biotech plays a critical roleBiotechnology can produce sustainable, traceable ingredients for the clean beauty market.
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cGMP Certification Options: What’s the best path for your business?Katie Fillinger of NSF International’s Health Sciences Certification program explains some possible cGMP certification pathways.
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Switching to a plant-based softgel?Experts discuss the challenges and solutions you need to know about.
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As nutraceutical and pharmaceutical firms compete for a bigger slice of the healthcare market, delivery innovations like pelletization will help them stand outHow pelletization can give the nutraceutical industry a boost, according to experts from Vantage Nutrition and ACG Capsules.
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Model digestion: One company describes its new in vitro model for screening how nutrients are absorbed, digested, and made bioaccessibleTo determine the model’s effectiveness, researchers used the model to examine the chemical effect of digestion in stomach and intestine on a range of nutritional components.
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Plant-based meat and dairy: What are consumers’ biggest purchase drivers?Market researcher FMCG Gurus shares survey insights on what’s influencing consumer decisions to buy plant-based products.
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Methods for Healthier Raw-Material SelectionAs our industry moves forward defining and redefining itself in both form and function, the entire basis for creating products that are both healthy and profitable takes on a whole new dimension. As research focuses more on which active components in botanicals and herbs have beneficial effects on the human condition, we are faced with decisions about which ones work most effectively in our bodies.
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Thermogenic Ingredients and WeightHow fat-burning ingredients are contributing to America’s fight against an expanding waistline
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The ABCs of Formulating with Plant ProteinsKey formulation priorities to consider when choosing your plant proteins
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Who Buys Omega-3s?A GOED survey evaluates the characteristics of omega-3 consumers in the United States and abroad.
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Ingredient Identification in the Time of FSMAWhat firms must know in terms of specifications, verification, and validation
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Published Studies Give Dietary Supplements Credibility, but Watch Out for Bad JournalsDon’t become the next victim of “predatory” journals and conferences.
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How Digital Printers-Yes, Printers-Can Help Companies Keep Up with Food TrendsFood trends turn on a whim. Digital printers help food marketers stay nimble when launching the product du jour.
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Child Vitamin Doses: Small Doses, Big IssuesChild supplement doses present unique challenges.
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Omega-3 Brand PerspectivesWith more forms and sources of omega fatty acids on the market, customers have more choices than ever before. Here’s why more options-and not fewer-are better for everyone.
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In Response: Differing on Vitamin DWhy IOM and experts don’t agree on recommended vitamin D levels.
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NDI Regulations: Challenges Facing BotanicalsAnticipating FDA’s eventual release of new dietary ingredient (NDI) guidance, the greatest challenge the botanicals industry will face depends on whether the new guidelines will allow ingredients to be grandfathered in simply by ingredient name, or if they will be grandfathered in by specific production method.
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Prebiotic Ingredients: Nondigestible OligosaccharidesNondigestible oligosaccharides act as prebiotics. But are some more effective than others?
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Consulting Our Mates Down Under for NDI GuidanceAustralia’s regulatory approach to botanical ingredient changes may inform U.S. companies as they prepare NDI draft guidance comments.
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POM vs. Coke: The Fight over a Food LabelPOM Wonderful complained that Coke’s Minute Maid Pomegranate Blueberry 100% Fruit Juice Blend’s name and label trick consumers into thinking the product contains a lot of those juices.
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Healthcare Cost Containment: Solutions You Can Implement NowA recent survey reported that 41% of employers cited healthcare cost as the most serious challenge facing their organization. Healthcare benefits have become one of the largest, fastest-growing, and most significant expenses for American companies. With no end in sight to crippling increases, it stands to reason that employers are seeking more innovative and effective strategies to keep costs in check.
