Villeroy, Québec, Canada—Fruit d’Or is celebrating the tools that enable the industry to leverage the new whole fruit cranberry health claim and avoid adulterated products, according to a press release. “Quality, traceability, and transparency begin in the field,” said Stephen Lukawski, Business Manager and Lead Consultant at Fruit d’Or, in...
Salt Lake City, UT—The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Partnership in order to promote the advancement of botanical dietary supplement research, according to a press release. Loren Israelsen, UNPA President, said in the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Your customers are increasingly aware and vocally questioning everything they put into their bodies. As a retailer, you have a right — and a responsibility — to question your vendors to be sure everything listed on their label is in fact in the bottle. “Retailers are getting more and more...
East Windsor, NJ — Sabinsa Corporation announced that they have chosen Eurofins Scientific for use of their analytical testing services, making them their global partner for botanical raw material ID testing. Eurofins specializes in the analytical testing of probiotics and supplement raw materials and will adopt proprietary methods of testing...
A family-owned business has a 3 in 10 chance of making it past the first generation. As NOW celebrates its 50th year, the milestone can be attributed to the ongoing vision of founder Elwood Richard. He wanted to make natural products affordable to everyone, followed the Golden Rule, and knew...
I set my bags down and plopped into the chair with the folks from iHeart at SupplySide West (SSW) to check off an item on my punchlist — getting familiar with my internal age. The iHeart device clips on the finger and measures stiffness of the arteries through the velocity...
Austin, TX — The American Botanical Council (ABC), American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP), and the University of Mississippi's National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR) have a partnership called the Botanical Adulterants Program as a way to spread knowledge among the herbal and dietary supplement industry about best practices regarding product adulteration.
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...
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a press release written by an industry company. WholeFoods Magazine does not endorse any specific brand or product. The opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the publisher. When the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published new research that found cranberry juice...
Interesting product idea? Check. Perfect formulation? Check. Great marketing plan? Check. Distribution? Check. Millions of dollars worth of analytical and manufacturing equipment at the ready? Uh…no. Many companies have everything it takes to market a fabulous natural product—everything except the manufacturing equipment. No machines? No problem, as hundreds of qualified...
