Trends & Business

Satialgine DVA is a new line of alginate ingredients for use in premium dairy and nondairy dessert applications.

The novel omega-3 technology is designed to accelerate the nutrient’s absorption and ensure its delivery to the sites where the body most needs it.

Adventurous tea-drinkers are seeking innovative, sophisticated flavors like rose, turmeric, and matcha.

The sweetener can now be used as a “general-purpose, non-nutritive sweetener for foods and beverages.”

The draft guidance is open for public comment until May 15, 2018.

The launch marks the first time that TruTag’s silica microtags are available in a finished product.

Embracing an alternative-protein future.

Putting commercial glucoraphanin on the map.

Educating consumers that beauty comes from within.

Congratulations to our 2016 Best of the Industry Award Winners: The American Herbal Products Association, Lycored, Brassica Protection Products, and Bühler Insect Technology Solutions.

At issue is FDA’s observation of an increase in reported adverse events related to biotin’s propensity to interfere with some lab tests and thereby cause clinically significant incorrect test results.

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.

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.