Hoboken, NJ — Walmart’s Jet.com brand has launched its private label consumer goods line with many of the products organic and sustainable. Called Uniquely J, it carries the tagline “your new favorite everything” and aims to appeal to the upscale millennial living in urban areas. The 50-odd SKUs in the...
New York, NY — The term “diet” has been used by soft drink companies to describe sugar-free and low calorie options for many years. The Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 states that companies may continue provided that "use of the term is not false or misleading.” On Oct. 16,...
Bethesda, MD — The National Institutes of Health has launched a major effort to discover and catalog the brain’s “parts list.” The NIH’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) aims to provide researchers with a comprehensive reference of the diverse cell types in human,...
Baltimore, MD — The 32nd Annual Natural Products Expo East took place on Sept. 14-16 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Overall, trend-wise, not much has changed since Natural Products Expo West in March, but Expo East is a great place to get a sense of what trends continue to hold...
You may have been told you need sales performance reports to better manage your natural business, but where do you start? It’s important to understand not all reports are useful and the wrong reports will only serve to confuse and distract you. This is why you need to understand what...
Tucson, AZ — Three in four Americans (76%) say they take dietary supplements, an increase of 5 percentage points from last year, according to the Council for Responsible Nutrition's annual survey of consumers. Top-line findings were released by Survey Subcommittee Chair Nikki Yas at CRN's Ascend conference at The Ritz-Dove...
Christopher Koveleski of Frey Vineyards issued an update on Tuesday saying the Frey wine pipeline would be filled by the holidays after devastating fires swept through Mendocino County. Here is his verbatim email to WholeFoods also posted on the Frey website: All of our family members and winery staff are...
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) on Tuesday provided testimony against HB 1195, a bill that would restrict those 18 years and younger from purchasing weight loss and muscle building products. CRN does recognize that the misuse and abuse of these dietary supplements by minors is a potential concern for...
The National Chicken Council (NCC) filed a petition asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to free them from the 140 birds-per-minute cap set by the Obama administration. The NCC says the limit was “arbitrary” and is setting the poultry industry back in the global marketplace, according to NBC News.
Washington, D.C.—The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has formed an eight-member advisory board for its 6-month-old dietary supplement product registry the Supplement OWL (Online Wellness Library). It includes representatives from dietary supplement companies (CRN members and non-members) and other industry stakeholders, along with two technical advisors. Appointees to the Supplement...
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