Minneapolis, MN—Taiyo announced that its branded ingredients Sunfiber, Suntheanine, Matcha and Teavigo have received LGC’s Informed Ingredient certification. This certification confirms that the ingredients are free of impurities and substances banned in sports nutrition products and therefore safe to be used by athletes without concerns of adulteration or contamination. “The...
Washington, D.C.—The Supplement Safety & Compliance Initiative (SSCI) announced the first company to meet its new safety and benchmarking standards: Natural Alternatives International (NAI). Established in 2015, SSCI is a joint effort by leading nutritional supplement retailers (including Walmart and GNC) in collaboration with the Natural Products Association (NPA) and...
It was on October 15, 2019, when Organic & Natural Health Association released its press release detailing our findings on Amazon and CBD. The company’s official policy is to not sell CBD/cannabinoid products to consumers, only hemp oil. At the time, a search on the retailer’s site for CBD generated...
Last month, we looked at the recently announced Amazon Quality Requirements, with many in industry agreeing that these initiatives being taken by Amazon are at least a step in the right direction, not only for Amazon, but for the market. From a "requirements" standpoint, they are still a long way...
In November 2020, Amazon instituted new requirements for supplement sellers to provide comprehensive lists of testing results along with other quality certifications. As Scott Steinford, Founder, Trust Transparency Center, shared in his Tracking Transparency column, letters were sent to many brands outlining these new requirements in order to sell dietary...
In this episode of The Natural View, WholeFoods Editor-in-Chief Maggie Jaqua gets the scoop on 3rd-party certifications, Amazon compliance, cannabis research, and more from Nutrasource. [caption id="attachment_80983" align="alignright" width="113"] William Rowe, Nutrasource[/caption] Our guest: William J. Rowe, President and CEO of Nutrasource, a global contract research organization (CRO) providing health product development...
Westminster, CO — TraceGains, a compliance software solution providing information exchange across the supply chain for food, beverage, and CPG companies, has acquired Healthnotes, which offers a regulatory and consumer education solution for dietary supplement retailers and manufacturers. Arizona Nutritional Supplements, Nature’s Way and NOW are among the clients using...
Visit any local market and look in each aisle. It’s probably safe to say at least one will have and even feature the store’s very own natural or organic branded product. Though this may not seem like news, with $118 billion in sales for 2016, according to a recent Nielsen...
The natural products industry is growing and dietary supplements are part and parcel to this growth. According to the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (CRN) 2016 Consumer Survey, 71% of adults use dietary supplements, making them an important source of income for natural products retailers (1). However, as the industry grows...
