Clinton, MI—Natural food company Eden Foods, based here, just announced that it will be relocating its West Coast warehouse facility to Fremont, CA, 12 miles south of its current location in Union City. Eden notes that this new location will allow for easier on/off trucking access, as well as...
Washington, D.C.—The scaffolding surrounding the U.S. Capitol building’s dome, part of an ongoing restoration, served as a fitting backdrop for the 18th annual Natural Products Day, hosted on March 24 by the Natural Product Association (NPA). Like the dome project, the industry’s efforts on Capitol Hill are meant to build...
Albany, NY—New York Attorney General (NYAG) Eric T. Schneiderman is continuing his unfounded assault on the herbal supplements industry. Schneiderman along with Indiana’s AG Greg Zoeller assembled an interstate coalition of AGs that are calling for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have greater oversight of the herbal...
Irvine, CA—The four-year partnership between supplement maker NeoCell and the Vitamin Angels non-profit has reached a huge milestone, having raised enough money to help more than 1,200,000 children around the world. Each fall, NeoCell makes a donation to Vitamin Angels for each product shipped from October to December, a program...
The controversy surrounding the New York Attorney General (NYAG)’s assessment of herbal supplements on the market continues. Most recently, GNC has released an announcement that it has come to an agreement with the NYAG about the Herbal Plus products in question. The NYAG has stated that the GNC products are...
South Plainfield, NJ— People looking for jobs in our industry have a new resource following a partnership between WholeFoods Magazine and NaturalIndustryJobs.com. Launched in 2011 by Laurel King, NaturalIndustryJobs.com is a resource for employers and jobseekers in the natural products industry to connect, and WholeFoods digital readers can now see...
The natural products industry mourns one of its greatest trailblazers with the loss of Gerald Kessler, who has passed away at the age of 80. In addition to founding supplement companies Nature’s Plus and Natural Organics, Inc., Kessler was one of the architects behind the landmark Dietary Supplement Health and...
Oslo, Norway—Researchers from Maastricht University, The Netherlands, have published data in Cardiovascular Biology and Cell Signalling suggesting that vitamin K2 supports cardiovascular health. The study involved 244 healthy healthy postmenopausal women. Of these,120 women were given MK-7 (180 mg, as MenaQ7 from Nattopharma, based here) for three years, while 124...
Newport Beach, CA—A new pilot study sponsored by BioCell Technology suggested its branded type II collagen (BioCell Collagen) may support recovery after exercise. Eight people took three grams of the collagen or a placebo for six weeks. On Days 43 and 46 of the study, the volunteers took part in...
Two research groups independently collected data on branded probiotic strains and generated some interesting results. First, several French researchers from the University of Lille, INSERM, CHU Lille, Biofortis-Merieux and Lesaffre Human Care conducted a study involving 179 people with irritable bowel syndrome. The volunteers took a placebo or 500 mg...
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