The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced a confirmed case of the presence of H7 avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial chicken breeder flock in Lincoln County, Tennessee, which is contracted to Tyson Foods Inc. Avian influenza, or blue flu, is caused by an...
Transparency is a buzzword that has been used a lot recently, but WholeFoods did get to experience firsthand the dedication to transparency from East Windsor, NJ-based Sabinsa Corporation and their parent company and counterpart in India, Sami Labs. We had the privilege of travelling to Bangalore, India to visit several...
Lonza Group AG, based in Basel, Switzerland, has successfully placed 5.0 million new shares by way of an accelerated bookbuilding procedure with selected investors in Switzerland (private placement) and outside of Switzerland to institutional investors and qualified institutional buyers. The shares were placed at 173.00 Swiss Francs (CHF) per new...
WholeFoods Magazine published Heather Wainer interviews Dr. Muhammed Majeed, founder of Sabinsa Corporation. [vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf8AAPLjZHY&feature=youtu.be"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...
WholeFoods Magazine publisher Heather Wainer interviews Sylvain Dufour, VP of sales and marketing for Fruit d'Or. [vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5ytJ7Yr-AY"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...
Orangeburg, NY — Mediterranean populations have lower levels of heart disease compared to the U.S. where one in four deaths are due to heart disease. These Mediterranean populations have been studied and it was found that their daily intake of five to ten milligrams of olive oils and olive fruit...
Mumbai, India — Indfrag Ltd., a Bangalore-based company active in health and nutrition active ingredients market, has undergone an 85% stake acquirement by OmniActive health Technologies Ltd. All products related to Indfrag’s Food and Nutrition business are included in the acquirement and definitive agreements have been entered to acquire the...
New York City, NY—After OmniActive Health Technologies, Inc., Morristown, NJ filed a complaint for declaratory judgment on Kemin Industries, Inc., Des Moines, IA in September and they filed a complaint against OmniActive Health Technologies, Inc. for infringing on its patents in October, the two parties now appear to have reached...
Quebec, Canada — Fruit d’Or, Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Quebec, Canada held its Cranberry Harvest Symposium on October 23-26 at their Quebec headquarters. Several important announcements took place at the symposium, including a new partnership with Taiyo International, Inc, Minneapolis, MN for a new branded ingredient, SunCran. SunCran combines Fruit d’Or’s Organic Cranberry Juice...
Kearny, NJ—Pharmachem Laboratories, Inc., based here, has announced that it is moving away from measuring colony forming units (CFUs) in its probiotic formulas, instead utilizing flow cytometry which the firm says more accurately and quickly measures the viable cells in probiotics. This is a process that according to Alexis Collins,...
