Trends & Business

Back to the future: One company talks about the promise of natural approaches to managing blood sugar.

The combined entity is anticipated to represent about 34.7% of U.S. cannabidiol (CBD) sales in the food, drug, and mass market channel.

As more states across the U.S. close businesses in the effort to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, dietary supplement industry associations are urging state governors nationwide to allow dietary supplement and natural product retailers to remain operational as essential businesses.

Rick Mignella, executive vice president and managing director will lead the U.S. team and focus on scaling up business to expand the company’s presence within the North American market.

Beauty boom: Here are the drivers pushing the beauty market forward.

FDA says it will now only send inspectors out to domestic facilities for “mission-critical” purposes, such as “public health emergencies involving FDA-regulated products.”

As nutritional firms strive for high product quality and efficient businesses, suppliers discuss how pharma-grade equipment can help.

Packaging is immensely important for branding; therefore, a compromise will always exist between early adoption of eco-friendly packaging and aesthetics.

Annual awards program recognized 158 brands as finalists for their excellence in publishing and digital media

Will there be a growing place for plant protein in sports nutrition? Also, what other trends are driving the sports market?

Information sources, product attributes, price, and availability all play a role in determining which products sports nutrition consumers will buy.

Comet Bio has been chosen by Anheuser-Busch InBev to join its 100+ Sustainability Accelerator to pilot technology on brewer’s grain. Comet Bio is one of 17 companies chosen for the program’s 2020 cohort.

This spring, the company introduced a brand new product called Regular Girl Wellness, this time targeting not only the digestive health space but also urinary tract health.

A new Cargill report pinpoints consumer preferences within some of snacking’s most dynamic product categories: snack bars, salty snacks, candy, and sweet baked goods

Paul and Barbi Schulick, former cofounders of New Chapter and now cofounders of skincare startup For The Biome, are staking their new venture on what they see as the beauty market of the future: microbiome-friendly formulations using sustainable, vetted, well-researched ingredients.

Gnosis by Lesaffre issues marketing materials for its Quatrefolic and Phosphocomplex ingredients. 

Bartek Ingredients is expanding its malic acid capacity to 10,000 metric tons. 

These are the first warning letters to be issues by FDA for unapproved products intended to prevent or treat COVID-19. 

The following are the newly scheduled dates, at the same, originally scheduled venues: SupplySide East (June 23-24, 2020) and Vitafoods Europe (September 1-3, 2020).

Companies that had proactively purchased more ingredients ahead of the tariffs will be better-positioned than those who didn’t, says Nuherbs’s Wilson Lau.

These new lines are called Bold Heart by Cardiosmile and CatchFree Omega. 

OmniActive works with farming communities at the very beginning of the supply chain to reduce treatable eye and vision problems, treat nutrition related diseases, empower women, improve sanitation and hygiene, and educate farmers. 

Milk Specialties Global is launching a brown rice protein called PROriz. 

Bunge Loders Croklaan has launched a portfolio of oils designed to replicate the taste, texture, and cooking experience of meat in plant-based meat alternatives. 

Vitafoods Europe 2020 (12-14 May, Palexpo, Geneva) is returning, to provide a key platform for the entire nutraceutical supply chain to find practical business solutions and discuss its greatest opportunities and challenges.

FDA’s March 5 CBD report to Congress, required by the 2020 spending bill, focused mainly on the agency’s progress in collecting data on CBD, but provided no new material information on whether the agency will make CBD a legal dietary ingredient.

Technologies developed by 3i, such as VitaSperse and VitaDry, will allow Stratum to begin offering water-dispersible forms of its ingredients. 

Life Extension has partnered with Insilico Medicine Inc. to utilize artificial intelligence to formulate Geroprotect Stem Cell, a dietary supplement designed to support youthful, healthy stem cell function.