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Focalis is a stimulant-free dietary supplement produced in a partnership between Focalis and Uniwell Laboratories.

The company notes that all grades of its Pomella Extract (which include Pomella FG [food grade] and Pomella Organic, among others) have now obtained self-GRAS status.

The biggest challenges and opportunities supplement retailers face today.

The company says that its MenaQ7 Vitamin K2 is the best-documented vitamin K2 available as MK-7. 

The document outlines maximum quantities of foreign matter acceptable in selected herbal raw materials.

According to Ashland, the new division, which combines the company’s nutrition business with Pharmachem’s ingredients processing capabilities, was created to meet the demands of a fast-growing global nutraceuticals market.

I recently spoke with Jane Wilson, AHPA’s director of program development, about how its standardized best practices tools can be used up and down the botanical supply chain, and about how they hopefully will help bolster quality control and transparency throughout the botanical industry.

The company says that its citrus bioflavonoids, which are available in powder and granulated compression format, provide broad bioflavonoid profiles.

Interest in portable, tasty nutrition reaches new heights.

The company said that it has completed certification of all 3,300 of its milk suppliers per the requirements of the Sustainable Dairy Assurance Scheme, a quality and sustainability program that independently audits farm-level performance every 18 months.

In a statement on the advisory, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, pointed to the “clear data on the increasing harms associated with kratom.”

In a statement on the advisory, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, pointed to the “clear data on the increasing harms associated with kratom.”

The report has been posted to the Codex Alimentarius Commission website.

The company reported its biggest loss since going public in 2009, which it said is due in part to declining sports nutrition sales.

As consumer demand for natural ingredients continues to grow, lesser–known botanicals, backed by millennia-old healing traditions and supported by contemporary research, are poised to steal the spotlight in 2018.

Savvy shoppers are rejecting artificial colors-and they’re willing to pay more for the real deal-but creating stable, natural colors is still a challenge.  

According to the company, Kemin’s own in vitro and animal studies show that the ingredients can “prime key immune cells, thereby strengthening the body’s immune defenses."

MegaFood will commence selling four of its current supplements using Tespo’s latest dispenser beginning fourth-quarter 2018.

The associations, along with the U.S Anti-Doping Agency, said that they support FDA’s recent efforts to crack down on the unlawful manufacturing of body-building products containing selective androgen receptor modulators.

The “GOED Best-Practice Guidelines on Oxidation Control” were developed to help GOED members prevent and minimize the risk of oxidation that threatens omega-3 oils at multiple points along the value chain, from processing to the encounter with the consumer.

According to the company, the ingredients in the Versasweet line will help formulators lower added sugars on Nutrition Facts panels.

The powder was developed with Olene's patented Aqueosome processing technology, which allows for the safe production of ginger oleoresin powder without the use of solvents, and which purportedly yields a finished active-compound standardization level greater than 26%.

The company said that consumers’ failure to correctly identify “bad” cholesterol highlights the importance of consumer education.

The latest research on brain health ingredients indicates products are meeting consumer needs and offer significant opportunity for category growth.

The company says that the new SimPure line will help “clean up” frozen-product formulation.

A look at why CoQ10 has remained a go-to heart health ingredient for decades.

Making the case for dairy proteins in a plant-protein era.

The merger will integrate the two companies’ R&D, sales, marketing, production, supply chain, and logistics activities while allowing the merged companies to expand their collective product portfolios to reach both Enzymotec’s and Frutarom’s existing customer bases.