Meadowfoam Producer Joins USCHPA
Natural Plant Products (Salem, OR) is the newest member of the board of directors for the U.S.-China Health Products Association.
Natural Plant Products (NPP; Salem, OR) is the newest member of the U.S.-China Health Products Association (USCHPA) board of directors. USCHPA made the announcement earlier this week, noting that it adds scope to the association’s mission with a specialist from the personal care sector.
A manufacturing and marketing subsidiary of OMG, a co-op of 50 Oregon farms, NPP supplies various oil-based ingredients to the cosmetics and personal care industries, including meadowfoam seed oil. In 2011 the company began marketing daikon radish oil produced from radish seeds.
Gencor to distribute Gnosis by Lesaffre’s Landkind Pure Salidroside in the United States
September 11th 2024The ingredient is manufactured by Gnosis by Lesaffre as an alternative to rhodiola extract. Salidroside is the most studied bioactive in rhodiola, to which the extract efficacy is attributed to.
New review from BAPP estimates adulteration of five popular botanicals
September 10th 2024The study focused on the adulteration of black cohosh rhizome, echinacea root or herb, elder berry, ginkgo leaf, and turmeric root/rhizome. The authors reviewed 78 publications with a total of 2995 samples. Of the 2995 samples, 818 were reported to be adulterated or mislabeled.
The Nutritional Outlook Podcast Episode 33: Keeping up with contract manufacturing
July 26th 2024Nutritional Outlook talks to Lauren Samot, commercial innovation leader, and Blayney McEneaney, sales executive at Vitaquest International, about trends within the contract manufacturing space, and the ways in which contract manufacturers like Vitaquest keep up with the market and differentiate themselves from the competition.
