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Amazon Business Practice Issues That You Can Take Advantage Of

October 22, 2020

Trust Transparency Center has tracked and reported on Amazon’s Dietary Supplement programs and platforms for the past three years with the intention of arming independent retailers with strategies to effectively compete against this gargantuan operation. Over time there have been many changes in the structure of the service, not many...

Transparency Top 2021 Trend, According to Innova Market Insights

October 20, 2020

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Arnhem, Netherlands—Innova Market Insights has unveiled its annual Top Ten Trends report, according to a press release. The report gives retailers, brands, and manufacturers insight into consumer demands. The main takeaway: The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed consumers to focus on overall health and immunity, the press release says. Innova has...

Building Trust: Third-Party Lab Testing and Certifications

September 24, 2020

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

U.S. consumers spent an estimated $9.602 billion on herbal dietary supplements in 2019, according to the American Botanical Council’s (ABC) 2019 Herb Market Report. That’s an 8.6% increase in total U.S. sales from 2018. And the growth continued as COVID-19 became a public health crisis: During the first six months...

SHP Publishes Sustainability & Regenerative Practices Toolkit

April 21, 2020

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Austin, TX—The Sustainable Herbs Program (SHP) has announced the publication of the SHP Sustainability & Regenerative Practices Toolkit, according to a press release, as well as a video explaining the toolkit's purpose and content. The SHP Toolkit is an online collection of resources and best practices for the herb and...

The Transparency Trail for Dietary Supplements

April 16, 2020

Scott Steinford

Since January 1, 2018, Trust Transparency Center and others have raised the concern that Amazon has continuously acted with less responsibility and accountability than it should to protect the dietary supplement consumer. A recent example underlines this point quite clearly. As a setup, let’s ask the question: How many times...

Finding Value and Trust in Branded Ingredients

March 19, 2020

Scott Steinford

We know the value of consumer trust and we look for ways to build it. Consumers are looking for evidence and information. The marrying of these two concepts is what has evolved into the branded ingredient offering—the ‘Intel inside.’ Branded ingredients were a relatively new concept 20 odd years ago,...

Shifting to Clean Label

March 19, 2020

Maggie Jaqua, Content Director

The industry is buzzing about “clean label,” but what does it even mean? “Clean-label can mean a lot of things—to some people it means using as few ingredients as possible, to other people, it means non-GMO and natural ingredients, and to others still, it means only using ingredients that the...

FoodChain ID Named Exclusive Certification Body of U.S. Hemp Authority

February 21, 2020

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Fairfield, IA–Food safety, testing, and sustainability organization FoodChain ID announced that is is now the exclusive certifying body for the U.S. Hemp Authority (USHA) Certification seal. “With the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp’s extracts such as CBD [cannabidiol] with a THC level of not more than 0.3 percent (as...

The Future of Skincare: Ingredients, Trends, and Innovation

February 19, 2020

Julia Peterman

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The latest trend in health and beauty: Consumers are looking for specific science-supported ingredients in their products—CBD is an obvious one, but other ingredients like hyaluronic acid, collagen, and vitamin C are also in demand. As WholeFoods has previously reported, evidence of this shift can be seenin product names, wherein...

Mandatory Product Listing: Beneficial, or Burdensome?

The FDA has suggested that a mandatory listing requirement for dietary supplements “could provide significant benefits by improving transparency." But is it necessary?

February 19, 2020

WholeFoods Magazine Contributor

The FDA has suggested that a mandatory listing requirement for dietary supplements could help ID “bad actors who put the public at risk and undermine consumer confidence in the entire industry." But is it really necessary?