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A new website allows consumers to track the origins of the soybeans used in each carton of Silk soymilk.

Residents of the remote town of Tsinjoarivo, Madagascar are receiving a charitable offering of children’s multivitamins from supplements manufacturer NHK Laboratories Inc., the company recently stated.

Canada places BPA on List of Toxic Substances.

Krill oil supplier Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. (Laval, QC) has been awarded health claims from Health Canada (Ottawa, ON) for its NKO krill oil.

Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands) has acquired Microbia Inc. (Lexington, MA), a biotechnology research and development specialist previously owned by Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA).

Contract manufacturer Sirio Pharma Company, Ltd., has begun operating its new soft-gel plant in China capable of producing eight-billion soft-gel capsules per year.

According to Cognis (Monheim, Germany), it has become one of the first suppliers of functional cosmetic ingredients to have its broad raw materials, including cosmetic oils, emulsifiers, and surfactants, certified natural by NaTrue.

Nutrient premix specialist Fortitech announced plans to double the size of its facility in Campinas, Brazil, taking the facility to 65,000 sq ft. The expansion is planned to be complete late next year.

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Supplements company New Chapter says that it is the first U.S. vitamin company to have its products verified as non-genetically modified (non-GMO) by the Non-GMO Project, North America’s only third-party source for verifying non-GMO products.

Functional ingredients are commonly challenged by their delivery methods, as taste, ease of digestion, and even proper absorption can be serious obstacles. For these reasons, innovative delivery systems remain at the forefront of today’s nutrition.

The Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3 (GOED; Salt Lake City, UT) has launched its Proud Member logo that its member companies can use on their websites and advertising.

Lipid Nutrition’s (Channahon, IL) PinnoThin satiety ingredient has been Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) by FDA.

When a company harnesses the credibility of a high-quality branded ingredient to enhance the reputation of its finished product-only to then quietly switch that key ingredient for a lower-quality ingredient somewhere along the line-I call it “nutritional counterfeiting.”

If you live in Europe and eat meat, your diet may have experienced a slight change. You may have eaten cloned beef.

Your most critical marketing challenge is simple: you must find a way to differentiate your product from all the others. What is it that makes your product stand out from the rest?

Cereals such as wheat, rice, and corn are an important part of the human diet worldwide. They are the most widely grown of all crops and are consumed frequently, either on their own or in products such as breakfast cereals, bread, and pasta.

When it comes to adverse-event reports (AERs), what constitutes too much public information?

As companies fight for a piece of the ever-growing weight-loss market, the desire to beat the competition leads to a proclivity for making increasingly spectacular-and outrageous-claims.

Judging by the popularity of the farm-to-table movement that’s sweeping the country, it’s safe to say that consumers are demanding to know more when it comes to what they put into their bodies.

The dairy industry, it seems, is suffering from an image crisis. The perception of liquid milk has changed in recent years. Instead of the healthiest drink of all, consumers have come to see milk as a drink laden with harmful fats and carbohydrates.

As of August 2010, Nutraceuticals International LLC (Elmwood Park, NJ) has agreed to a joint venture with Peruvian Nature (Lima, Peru) to expand the market for Peruvian natural ingredients.

Knowing how business cycles work is part of strategic communications planning. We recommend that our clients follow a strategy that provides dual marketing budgets. One is a standard, “allocated” budget. The other is a newer concept, an “opportunities” budget.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA; Parma, Italy) has approved a health claim for a sugar-free chewing gum intended to reduce tooth decay. The Article 14 health claim was submitted by Wrigley GmbH (Munich) for a chewing gum that contains xylitol, sorbitol, and mannitol.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA; Parma, Italy) has again stated that there is no reason to fear biosphenol A (BPA) if consumed according to the agency’s established tolerable dietary intake (TDI).

FDA principal deputy commissioner Joshua Sharfstein, MD, answered audience questions about new dietary ingredient (NDI) draft guidance today at the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (Washington, DC) annual conference in Austin, TX.

Sales of dietary supplements are looking up, according to results from a recent survey conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs (New York City) on behalf of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (Washington, DC).

A probiotic called Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 (BB-12) reduced the rate of respiratory infections in newborn babies by 30%, according to research published in the British Journal of Nutrition last week.