Washington, D.C. - A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel yesterday unanimously recommended approval of an epilepsy medication made with CBD oil. If the agency follows the recommendation, as is expected, the drug would be the first pharmaceutical formulation of purified, plant-based CBD, a cannabinoid lacking the high associated with...
America likes celebrations. In April alone, besides the biggies, like Easter and Passover, there’s National Ferret Day, National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, and National Hug a Newsperson Day. The marijuana users of America also have their day Friday, April 20th. Called - unsurprisingly - 420, its celebrants say it’s...
Whole Foods Market’s loyalty program will be folded into Amazon Prime, which has over 100 million Prime members worldwide, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed in his annual shareholder letter this week. For context, the U.S. has about 126 million households, notes Retail Insights president and founder Jay Jacobowitz, "which leads...
Sunrise, FL — Viva 5 Corporation, a U.S.-based probiotic specialist, announced a licensing agreement with NUtech Ventures, the technology commercialization affiliate for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to be the exclusive worldwide distributor of an innovative new synbiotic, combining a proprietary human strain of Bifidobacterium adolescentis with a carefully selected galactooligosaccharide...
Oslo, Norway and Edison, NJ -Cheese is good for your heart health. And a new paper, "Menaquinone Content of Cheese," published in Nutrients and conducted at VitaK, Maastricht University in the Netherlands, examines the Vitamin K2 content of cheeses and other foods. It shows strong evidence that cheese has cardio-protective...
White Plains, N.Y. - DanoneWave has renamed itself Danone North America, and says it has been certified as a B Corporation promoting social and environmental performance. According to a company press release, the company's new name represents its intention to continue its journey with a single identity that's easily recognizable...
Let's face it - consumers would rather slather products on their face, skin and hair that aren't weighed down by synthetic materials for fear of possible side effects. According to a new report from Coherent Market Insights, the global herbal beauty products market could reach $136 billion by 2025, a...
Chicago – SPINS, the leading provider of retail consumer insights, analytics, and consulting for the Natural, Organic, and Specialty Products Industries, has acquired FoodFacts Inc., the leading consumer awareness platform for transparency into nutrition data, ingredients, allergens, and sensitivities. The acquisition provides SPINS with an unprecedented level of attribution of...
Washington, D.C. - Industry leaders are reacting positively to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recently published guidance about the dangers of selling bulk powdered caffeine (BPC) products. This comes after at least two confirmed deaths and an unknown number of medical events have been attributed to the consumption of...
Washington, D.C. - Two major animal rights groups have joined the Organic Trade Association’s (OTA) court battle against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) failure to enact new organic livestock standards. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) are now co-plaintiffs...
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