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Roquette has completed its acquisition of India-based excipient manufacturer Crest Cellulose to continue realizing its strong growth ambitions and meet rising global demand for high-quality plant-based excipients.

Mandatory product listing provision no longer attached to FDA user fee reauthorization legislation, based on newly introduced appropriations bill. Read for timeline of events that led to this point.

This decision was made to reduce reliance on under-pressure wild-grown supplies.

Informed Ingredient certification is also useful for companies aiming to comply with Amazon’s safety-documentation requirements for dietary supplements.

Continuing studies show promising results for individuals desiring natural pain-management solutions.

Consumers want to invest in products to support their immune health. But they also want evidence that immune-health products work.

ADM has opened a new extrusion facility in Serbia that is set up to produce non-GMO soy proteins after the acquisition of SojaProtein less than a year ago.

Advances in infant foods, formulas, and supplements yield products to meet numerous infant health needs.

An initiative of the MetaGenoPolis unit of INRAE (the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment), the French Gut Project is a research project that has set out to collect 100,000 French intestinal metagenomes for analysis

FDA's content regarding dietary supplements overemphasizing negative aspects of dietary supplement industry, says CRN in feedback to the Agency.

The funding will accelerate the production of cell-cultured meat for which BioBetter has pioneered a protein manufacturing platform for producing growth factors (GFs) using tobacco plants.

NPA submitted comments offering input to the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health on how to address nutrition and health integration.

The SQF program is administered by FMI, The Food Industry Association and benchmarked to the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).

Hofseth BioCare has announced a no-objection letter from FDA following an NDI notification for its ProGo bioactive peptides ingredient.

The study aims to determine the safety and effectiveness of the ingredient on improving long- and short-term memory, concentration, and clarity of thinking in healthy individuals. The study is planned for completion in November.

The facility will house a fermentation reactor sized at 30,000 L, which is the largest of its kind. This will allow the total manufacturing volume reach up to 900,000 L.

The ingredient is produced through a patented process by its supplier Extraordinary Extracts LLC, which is a division of American BioSciences.

Clinical trials design best practices for nutraceuticals

Due to the controlled fermentation process used to produce the ingredient, fermentlife boasts a full matrix of other bioactive ingredients, including postbiotics and paraprobiotics.

NutriLeads BV signed a commercial agreement with Royal DSM to bring pre-mix and market-ready solutions that feature BeniCaros the U.S. supplement market.

Lesina was previously with Lonza as executive director and will be responsible for implementing a strategy that targets small and medium brands launching novel nutraceutical formulations.

In response to NIH’s ODS request for comments, industry stakeholders such as the American Herbal Products Association and The Council for Responsible Nutrition, and The Consumer Healthcare Products Association submitted comments on Aug. 31.

Botanicals may be ancient ingredients, but they may also be the wellness wave of the future.

Low Dog is an expert in integrative medicine, an educator, and an author.

Equinom and AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. entered into an agreement to co-create a portfolio of plant-based functional ingredients produced from Equinom yellow pea varieties.

AIDP will be responsible for the sales and marketing efforts to promote the company’s GG-Gold and DuoQuinol ingredients from American River Nutrition.

Probiotics and prebiotics might be trending, but don’t forget about enzyme supplements, experts say.

Kerry launched a label-friendly, non-GMO alternative texture system called Puremul designed to overcome the current sunflower lecethin supply chain challenges and pricing instability.