Washington, D.C. – For the 23rd year, the Natural Products Association (NPA) will honor individuals in “government and business that have made valuable contributions” to the natural products industry during the Natural Products Expo East on September 23rd in the Baltimore Convention Center. “The Natural Products Association is once again...
Washington, D.C. – On Friday, October 28th, Sally Hogshead, a New York Times best-selling author and creator of the Fascination Advantage Assessment, will share insights from her book, Fascinate: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist, at the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (CRN) educational and networking event, The Conference:...
London, UK—In a deal worth about $1.56 billion, Informa Exhibitions has purchased Penton from private equity firms MidOcean Partners and Wasserstein & Co., according to Reuters. The move strengthens the British company's reach into the natural products industry in the process of creating one of the largest tradeshow and media...
Say goodbye to antibacterial washes with triclosan. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a final rule that bans certain ingredients from over-the-counter (OTC) antibacterial soaps and washes. According to the rule (which amends one published in 1994), such ingredients are not generally recognized as safe and effective (GRAS/GRAE) and are...
Bayer has finally secured the acquisition of St. Louis-based Monsanto with an offer that amounts to about $66 billion, after months of courting and two previous offers. The $128 per share deal is the largest cash bid on record and will create a company that commands more than a quarter of...
An investigation by ProPublica reveals that the state of California is expanding exceptions to federal environmental laws, called aquifer exemptions, that allow mining, oil and gas companies to dispose of waste directly into water reserves (1). The state, one of 23 that have been issued exemptions, has been experiencing severe...
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced vinpocetine did not meet the definition of a dietary ingredient and would be excluded from the definition of a dietary supplement in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. According to the FDA, vinpocetine is synthetically produced...
Morristown, NJ—Several new studies offer even more evidence that a branded eye health ingredient (lutein and zeaxanthin) is quickly bioavailable in the body and elicits an important response in the retina. Researchers worked with Lutemax 2020 from OmniActive Health Technologies, based here, which contains three carotenoids—lutein, RR-zeaxanthin and RS-zeaxanthin—in a...
Washington, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will purchase $20 million worth of cheese and donate it to food banks in an effort to modestly reduce the cheese surplus that is at a 30-year high. According to a report by NPR, the surplus resulted when dairy farmers, responding to record...
Washington, D.C.—On Thursday, the Natural Products Association (NPA) submitted a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an extension of the comment period on the newly revised guidance re-draft for New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) Notifications. The draft guidance, which was released on August 11, currently has a...
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