New research conducted by a group of researchers from Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia and Menoufia Medical School, Egypt demonstrates the potential of palm-based tocotrienols as as a neuroprotective and antioxidant agent in chronic cerebral hypoperfusion-induced neurodegeneration. Researchers used rats that received 2-vessel occlusion (2VO) which induces neuronal...
Tokyo based Kaneka Corporation acquired a 34.8% share of AB-Biotics (ABB), a Barcelona based biotech company focusing on research, development, and distribution of its own products using lactic acid bacteria. Kaneka has also established a license agreement with AB-Biotics to grant Kaneka exclusive rights for production and sales of ABB’s...
NEW YORK — International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF) plans to acquire natural ingredients firm Frutarom for $7.1 billion, the company announced this week, in its goal of becoming the world’s top natural ingredient and flavor supplier. “Frutarom has had a fascinating journey of accelerated growth,” said Ori Yehudai, Frutarom president...
Bradenton, FL – In a move that defines the term “giving back,” HP Ingredients announces it made a donation of $10,000 to Vitamin Angels’ to support its new Global Prenatal Campaign, whose goal is to “eliminate newborn mortality around childbirth due to vitamin deficiency disease by 2030.” According to HP...
Wausau, WI — UAS Laboratories LLC has acquired Nebraska Cultures, Inc., a company which specializes in custom manufactured probiotic solutions. Through this transaction, UAS Labs will accelerate its leadership in the fast-growing probiotic industry. UAS will now offer its global partners a complete portfolio of stable products including exclusivity to...
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...
East Windsor, NJ — Sabinsa has been promoting the combination of its Curcumin C3 Complex and BioPerine for more than two decades based upon research showing the synergy between the company’s proprietary curcumin and piperine ingredients. A new study validates that research. The open access study, Curcumin and piperine supplementation of obese...
Carthage, MO — Stratum Nutrition, an NSF-certified manufacturer of eggshell and eggshell membrane wellness ingredients, announced a first-of-its-kind joint health study published in the journal Clinical Interventions in Aging, evaluating its triple-action joint health ingredient, NEM brand eggshell membrane, in subjects with healthy joints. The results of this peer-reviewed study...
New Brunswick, N.J. — Nutritional ingredient company Natreon was granted U.S. Patent 9,901,596 for 3-hydroxy-dibenzo-α-pyrone (3-OH-DBP), also known as Urolithin B, a natural bioactive present in shilajit, for help with weight management. International patents are pending, the company said. Natreon was also issued a US patent (US 8,894,993) in 2014...
East Windsor, NJ - In a recent published study in the Journal of Dietary Supplements, researchers found that Pterocarpus marsupium extracts manufactured by Sami Labs (the manufacturing arm of Sabinsa Corporation) lowered blood glucose and HbA1c levels, increasing the levels of the hormone insulin in diabetic rats. Conducted at the Department of...
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