EuroPharma, Inc., the parent company of Terry Naturally, based in Greenbay, WI, turned ten years old in July. “We’ve been blessed as a company to have a great team and to have the opportunity to help people live better, more vibrant lives as a result of our work here,” said...
Neonicotinoid pesticides, commonly known as “neonics” have been a global debate because of the toxins and effects they have on insects. Experiments have shown neonics to be harmful and dangerous to bees in laboratory conditions which neonic advocates argue are unnatural conditions, force-feeding bees in its laboratory rather observing their...
Gentile Packaging Machinery and Xela Pack, based in Saline, MI, are celebrating 50 and 30 years of business, respectively. Gentile Packaging Machinery (GPM) was established in 1967 by Al Gentile in Detroit, MI where he built custom packaging machinery for pharmaceutical, food, HABA, and other product markets. In 1978, GPM...
Paris, France — AIDP, Inc. and Algaia, S.A. have announced their entrance into a distribution partnership to market Algaia’s alginates, naturally-occurring polysaccharides produced from brown algae, as well as other specialty marine-based solutions to customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The arrangement was finalized at Vitafoods in Geneva,...
NattoPharma, a researcher and developer of vitamin K2 products based in Metuchen, NJ, has been awarded a grant by the Norwegian Research Council. The grant will be used to fund a 4-year project documenting how the absence or presence of vitamin K2, MK7 effects the metabolism of calcium in the...
Los Angeles, CA — A study published in the Journal of Dietary Supplements found evidence that supplementation with ashwagandha (specifically KSM-66 from Ixoreal Biomed) has an impact on memory and cognition. The randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled pilot study was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ashwagandha for improving...
Brooklyn, NY — ITO EN (North America) Inc. announced its partnership with food industry redistributor Dot Foods, which will expand less than truck load availability of its popular brands, including matcha LOVE, TEAS’ TEA Organic and Oi Ocha, to distributors nationwide. Dot Foods has a streamlines business model, removing large...
SupplySide East, a Northeast supplier event for finished product manufacturers and marketers in the health and nutrition industry, will return to Secaucus, NJ for a two day exhibit at the Meadowlands Exposition Center on April 10th and 11th, 2018. To help keep cost down, “two 10’x10’ and one 10’x20’ complete booth...
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry, announced the addition of seven new companies to the association’s membership roster: Activ Nutritional, LLC, Ortho Molecular Products, Inc., Personalized Nutrition, LLC (VitaminPacks.com), Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, Micro Quality Labs Inc., Supplement...
OmniActive Health Technologies, based in Morristown, NJ, announced Johan Kamphuis as the president of Global Business. Kamphuis, who has 34 years experience in the food and dietary supplement industries and was most recently executive vice president at Bioriginal, will be operating out of the EU and focus on “targeted growth...
