Jennifer Grebow

The announcement came yesterday as part of a joint-agency, year-long crackdown on the supplements market.

Many other ingredients are helping serious and casual athletes reach holistic health.

Until now, commercially available L-ergothioneine has been sold in the synthetic form.

The company announced a prestigious botanical reference-materials partnership with the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia.

“What’s going to come next? Well, what I think is going to come next is more specific orders,” said attorney John Villafranco of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP.

Bayer’s FTC legal battle triumph underscores the rightful difference between dietary supplements and drugs.

The company also said it intends to begin offering pea protein isolates and concentrates in the near future.

These benefits will come in handy in applications such as beverages and high-protein powder shakes, the company says.

The suppliers of FB3, a new herbal-based weight-management ingredient introduced earlier this year, have created a new beverage with the ingredient, called FB3 Fusion.

The capsules not only give formulators an acid-resistant hard capsule that keeps ingredients protected through the digestive tract; they also do so in a vegetarian-friendly form, without the use of synthetic chemicals, solvents, or other shellac coatings.

Responses from supplement industry leaders aimed to put the findings in context.

The company developed its Reb M in partnership with The Coca-Cola Co., who will co-own the patent.

The association is now in the process of drafting quality standards for algae biomass that will eventually feed into a verification program and seal the association plans to roll out in Q1 2016.

Erylite Bronze contains a fruit extract to impart its bronze color.

EnoStim works by enhancing vasodilation by up to 50%, the company says.

Beverages, especially carbonated soft drinks, will be the key market out the gate, Cargill says.

Suppliers continue to hone delivery systems to meet consumer demand for better performance and ease of use. Here are just a few examples of new applications we saw at SupplySide West.

By contrast, typically a good-dissolving powder will disperse in 25 seconds, and an average powder will do so within 35-40 seconds, says Dupont Health and Nutrition.

Brain health will be one of 2016’s hottest topics, judging by what suppliers unveiled at SupplySide West.

Omega-3 suppliers are now taking omega-3 concentrates for dietary supplements into near-pharmaceutical territory with concentrations up to 90%, including the first high-concentrate algae oil on the market.

According to InnoVactiv, the NeuroPeak PS line “includes a complete offering of powder and liquid PS of various potencies."

Sublime contains phospholipids, choline, omega-3 PUFAs, and astaxanthin.

Step aside, pre- and probiotics. There is another chapter to the digestive-health story called “plusbiotics,” says GCI Nutrients.

Red-spinach ingredient Oxystorm claims to provide “more than five times the amount of nitrate as beetroot powder and more than 50 times of beet juice.”

The agency is now reviewing the petition and a final decision could come in early 2016.

Thrombosis (blood clotting) patients are often prescribed drug treatments, but there is also interest in nattokinase, an enzyme derived from fermented soybean food natto.

NEM’s anti-inflammatory benefits have already been demonstrated in research, but this new study revealed, for the first time, actual joint-protective effects from NEM.

What can industry take away from this year’s New York Attorney General probe?

Importantly, the researchers say, their study took care to ensure that the concentrations of EPA and DHA in the supplements administered, whether from fish oil or krill oil, were equal.