Ganeden Biotech of Mayfield Heights, OH, has partnered up with Mariani Packing Company of Vacaville, CA, to develop a new portfolio of dried fruit snacks and ingredient products using GanedenBC30 Probiotic Cultures. BI Nutraceuticals of Long Beach, CA, announced it reached the milestone of treating 75 million kilos of...
Orlando, FL—Informa Exhibitions LLC held Ingredient Marketplace in Orlando, FL, for the first time, after being held most recently in New York City. Some 350 exhibiting companies had booths in the exhibit hall at the Orlando World Center Marriott, April 7–9. An international set of ingredient buyers, sellers, marketers and...
National Enzyme Company of Forsyth, MO, now has stick pack packaging capabilities. Fruit d’Or, based in Quebec, Canada, is launching a series of five-minute educational videos about how cranberry supports wellness beyond urinary health. The series is produced and edited by celebrity news anchor and television host Jennifer Ward...
Kailua-Kona, HI— Cyanotech Corporation (parent company to Nutrex Hawaii) is soon bringing online a new supercritical CO2 extraction facility for the production of its BioAstin Natural Hawaiian Astaxanthin. The firm recently made a $3.2-million investment in an extremely specialized 1,000-bar extraction and concentration system that will be housed at its...
The best testing methods for herbal supplements—and why DNA barcoding may fall short of the mark.In early February, consumers who bought herbal supplements in New York were left wondering, “Was that really St. John’s Wort in my bottle?” NY Attorney General (NYAG) Eric T. Schneiderman announced DNA testing of herbal...
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...
Benicia, CA-based InterHealth Nutraceuticals announced that its Meratrim weight-management ingredient was found to be safe in several in vitro and in vivo toxicity tests, one of which was “a sub-chronic repeated-dose 90-day oral toxicity study that was conducted by a third party GLP lab,” says the company. The data...
Momence, IL—Calcium fructoborate (CFB), a plant-derived nature-identical ingredient composed of calcium bound to boron, may support various aspects of heart health, according to new research published in Biological Trace Element Research. Researchers from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania, gave study participants CFB (either 112 mg or...
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