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The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), a division of the National Institutes of Health, has published the second edition of its Encyclopedia of Dietary Supplements. ODS says the new edition now contains chapters on several botanicals, including Aloe vera, bilberry, bitter orange (Citrus aurantium), black cohosh (Actaea racemosa and Cimicifuga racemosa), kava (Piper methysticum), and saw palmetto (Serenoa repens).

Naturex (South Hackensack, NJ) has added to its NAT stabil and NAT arom lines.

Market research firm Frost & Sullivan (San Antonio, TX) has named Roquette (Lestrem, France) a recipient of its 2010 product differentiation excellence award for the company’s Nutralys brand pea protein.

The Dairy Research Institute has been founded by Dairy Management Inc. (DMI; Rosemont, IL) and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.

Beneo-Orafti, Beneo-Palatinit, and Beneo-Remy have aligned themselves under the company umbrella of Beneo Inc., which will serve as the North American subsidiary of Beneo. Beneo specializes in functional food ingredients derived from chicory root, sugar beet, and rice.

Enzymotec (Israel) announced that both its pure and high-potency krill oil grades have met ConsumerLab.com standards.

Probiotics supplier Ganeden Biotech (Cleveland) has partnered with Agostoni Chocolate to develop private-label products containing probiotics and chocolate.

UAS Laboratories (Eden Prairie, MN) founder and president S.K. Dash, PhD, has established an endowment at South Dakota State University’s College of Nutrition and Food Science.

Ocean Spray’s Ingredient Technology Group (ITG) has launched a new website at www.oceansprayitg.com to provide information on the supplier’s range of fruit and cranberry ingredients.

Martek Biosciences Corp. (Columbia, MD) is restructuring its Winchester, KY, facility to improve capacity and reduce manufacturing and operating costs.

National Enzyme Co. (Forsyth, MO) has acquired Sora Laboratories, an analytical, microbiological, and characteristics laboratory.

PepsiCo announced a four-year partnership with flavors firm Senomyx Inc. (San Diego, CA) to develop and commercialize natural sweeteners and sweetness enhancers.

FDA has issued a “no objections” GRAS approval for SG95, a new stevia product from PureCircle (Oak Brook, IL).

Nutraceuticals International (Elmwood Park, NJ) has agreed to distribute more than 900 stock flavors offered by flavor supplier Faerie’s Finest (Hawaiian Gardens, CA).

Herbamed Ltd. (Weizmann Technology Park, Israel) has appointed New Products Plus (NPP; Salt Lake City, UT) its exclusive Western U.S. agent for its Ultrasome coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10).

LabelArchive Inc. (Boise, ID) is now offering its label-management technology to the nutraceuticals market.

Private-equity firm Irving Place Capital has signed an agreement to purchase Alpha Packaging (St. Louis), a leading blow-molder of plastic bottles and jars for the nutraceuticals market.

Kappa Bioscience AS (Oslo, Norway) has entered the market as a new ingredients supplier.

NP Nutra has added a certified-organic mangosteen powder to its Super ORAC line of ingredients.

Solpro 735 is a calcium-fortified isolated soy protein that can provide additional calcium to a wide range of beverages.

Cargill is promoting SaltWise, a sodium-reduction system that provides a salty taste while reducing sodium content between 25 to 50%.

Caravan Ingredients has added a wheat ferment enhancer to its Pristine line of clean-label products.

RiPro 80 and Riber 50 are what a company respectively calls the world’s first rice bran protein and rice bran fiber.

SyneROX4 is an oxidation-management solution for extending the shelf life of whole-milk powder and other concentrated milk products, while protecting against rancidity.

The Laboratory PowerMix, Model PD-2, is designed for viscous materials that require both slow- and high-speed agitation.

Fruit-sweetened dried cranberries offer the same processing advantages of Ocean Spray’s flagship soft and moist sweetened dried cranberries, while removing the need to call out sugar as an ingredient, says the company.

White teas may impart the same health benefits associated with green teas, according to research published in the Journal of Food Science.

Gaia Herbs’ Professional Division (Brevard, NC), under the brand name Professional Solutions, has been accepted as a gold partner in the recently launched Emerson Quality Program (EQP), a voluntary program designed to give healthcare professionals background data about dietary supplement companies.

Chemi Nutra’s (White Bear Lake, MN) SerinAid brand of phosphatidylserine (PS) has been halal certified by the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America (IFANCA), allowing SerinAid products to bear IFANCA’s Crescent M Halal logo.

Ethical Naturals (San Anselmo, CA) has attained self-affirmed GRAS status for ORAC-15M, a grape extract intended to provide antioxidants to supplements and beverages.