Trends & Business

A longtime natural products marketing expert reminisces on the evolution of the natural products arena.

Industry and FDA share the same goal: to ensure a safe dietary supplements marketplace. 

Two decades later, supplement users seek choice, take control.

Today’s consumers have gone after their health and wellness goals with a targeted approach that has changed the face of the supplements market in the past two decades.

Quinoa-now a staple of the North American diet-is rarely ever grown here. Here’s what one company is doing to change that. 

In celebration of Nutritional Outlook’s 20th anniversary, dietary supplement leaders share their views on how the industry has changed over the past two decades.

Corby Reese, partner and managing director at Swander Pace Capital (San Francisco), talks about the ins and outs of private equity in the natural products space.

When big CPG companies acquire smaller natural companies, should the two companies remain largely separate?

The plant should be operational beginning in the first half of 2018 and is projected to be the largest industrial insect-processing plant in Europe, the companies say.

PLT Health Solutions says that the new ZümXR targeted-release, liquid-stable caffeine ingredient was developed using pharmaceutical techniques that ensure the ingredient releases caffeine in a predictable, controlled manner.

Neptune will quit its bulk krill oil manufacturing and distribution business, with remaining krill oil inventory and IP transferring to Aker BioMarine.

The Global Curcumin Association is part of Trust Transparency Consulting’s mission to create new, single-ingredient trade associations.

Innophos says that the merger agreement will create a nearly $0.5 billion food, health, and nutrition platform for the company, and deliver strong shareholder value.

The newly added probiotic strains include Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and Eubacterium hallii, two strains that the company says are “widely regarded as primary candidates for next-generation probiotics.”

The workshop will feature focused discussions on subjects such as cutting-edge clinical research on botanicals, as well as personalized nutrition and nutritional genetics.

The company says its process-stable Homecraft Create rice flours will enable manufacturers in the U.S., Canada, and the Asia-Pacific region to meet consumer clean-label preferences for rice flour while achieving high performance.

Dietary supplement industry officials say that the study’s conclusions are incomplete, and that the vast majority of calls placed did not involve any adverse events related to dietary supplements, but were simply inquiries.

EyePro MD is a softgel supplement that purportedly offers eye-health benefits related to its “super blend” of lutein, zeaxanthin, astaxanthin, and omega-3s.

NCN found that by mid-year this year, mergers and acquisitions were up 33%, while financings were up 16%, compared to transaction tracking data from last year.

The company beat out 25 other top Norwegian companies for the honor.

What you need to know about this centuries-old sleep aid

The company says that its new K-Real Gold krill oil features greater levels of highly concentrated omega-3s and astaxanthin and is free of TMAO and TMA.

Attorney Scott Bass, who helped draft the DSHEA law of 1994, says that Congress did not intend “dietary substances” only to be limited to ingredients that are nutritional-and that this should mean that synthetic botanicals and probiotics count as dietary ingredients and be eligible for use in dietary supplements.

The company is also opening a new innovation center in addition to the new production facility.

Ken Seguine, an industry veteran with 25 years of experience in the natural products industry, has been appointed head of the New York Algatechnologies office.

Len Monheit has joined Trust Transparency Consulting as co-managing partner alongside Scott Steinford.

This standard is the first Codex Alimentarius standard for fish oil as well as krill oil.

Shaheen Majeed, formerly the marketing director for Sabinsa Corp., has been named president of Sabinsa Worldwide.