Kissimmee, FL— SOHO Expo, the largest independent tradeshow, is celebrating its 45th anniversary at Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center from December 1-4, 2016 by hosting 20 education programs for retail attendees. “We are very excited about the speaker line up for this year’s SOHO Expo,” said Frances Drennen, President...
Kearny, NJ—Pharmachem Laboratories, Inc., based here, has announced that it is moving away from measuring colony forming units (CFUs) in its probiotic formulas, instead utilizing flow cytometry which the firm says more accurately and quickly measures the viable cells in probiotics. This is a process that according to Alexis Collins,...
Salt Lake City, UT—The Senate’s most senior Republican—Utah’s Orrin Hatch—and one of the principle authors of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), may run for his eighth term in the Senate in 2018. According to Politico, unnamed Republican Party operatives are saying that Hatch is seriously considering running,...
A new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology suggest consumers with concerns of a food allergy are often confused with labels that say “may contain” or “manufactured on shared equipment.” The online study, which 6,684 consumers from the U.S and Canada participated in, was conducted by...
Dana Point, CA—Since officially undertaking the process of designing a product registry in April of this year, the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) finally unveiled its new Supplement Online Wellness Library (OWL), at its annual symposium, The Conference, on Thursday, October 27. As reported previously by WholeFoods, the intention of...
Dana Point, CA—On Thursday, October 27, at the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (CRN) annual symposium, The Conference, the trade group presented some telling results from its 2016 CRN Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements. The results show that among consumers, confidence in the safety, quality and effectiveness of dietary supplements remains high,...
On Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, urged Commissioner Robert Califf, M.D. in a letter, to withdraw the federal register notice for Vinpocetine, a dietary ingredient that has five acknowledgements in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) New Dietary Ingredients Database. According to Hatch’s letter, “the Dietary Supplement...
Washington, D.C.—On October 19, 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced plans to start a Joint Organic Compliance Committee in an effort to support a potential organic equivalency arrangement between the U. S. and Mexico. The arrangement, according to USDA, would allow “organic producers and...
Specials, prices and promotions are available to customers at the click of a button. This means the promotions you are working hard to push in stores are more likely to be read and invested in while shoppers are sitting on their phones at home. Your store probably has a website,...
Following the acquisition of Merical Inc., Linden Capital Partners LLC has named Operating Partner Brian Smith as the interim CEO. EAS Consulting Group, LLC has hired Domenic Veneziano as advisor for import operations. He is a veteran FDA specialist with over 24 years of experience. Krista McCay has been appointed...
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