BONE-UP'S MILESTONE Jarrow Formulas (Los Angeles) has sold its one-billionth capsule of Bone-Up for bone and joint health, the company recently announced. Bone-Up is a calcium formula featuring Australian bovine bone hydroxyapatite.

Kyowa Hakko Fetes 40th

This year marks Kyowa Hakko USA's (New York City) 40th year in business. The company offers a variety of branded ingredients, including Cognizin citicoline, Kyowa CoQ10, Lumistor, and Sustamine l-alanyl glutamine.

Hilmar Receives Award

Hilmar Ingredients (Hilmar, CA) was named 2009 Exporter of the Year by the United States Dairy Export Council. The award considered ongoing export sales success; leadership in driving global dairy demand; and providing quality, trend-meeting products, the firm says.

GCI Nutrients Turns 40

GCI Nutrients (Foster City, CA) is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Having started as an importer of Geoxy-132, the company now has seven offices worldwide.

GMP Labs NSF-Certified

GMP Laboratories of America Inc. (Anaheim, CA) has announced CGMP certification from NSF International. It now holds certification from two independent CGMP auditing agencies.

BI Nutraceuticals Revamps GRAS Database

BI Nutraceuticals (Long Beach, CA) has enhanced its GRAS ingredient reference database by organizing listings according to condition-specific category. The database also explains why each of the more than 200 GRAS ingredients can aid each health concern.

Kelatron Installs ICP-MS

Kelatron Corp. (Ogden, UT) has installed an ICP-MS with collision cell technology at its Millers Laboratories. New, significant investments in equipment and personnel were made to help customers comply with CGMPs and Proposition 65.

CONSUMERS SUPPORT WORLD BREAD In a consumer study, Caravan Ingredients (Lenexa, KS) found that an estimated 58% of consumers find its World Bread line to be an "affordable indulgence," thanks to its hearty, artisan-style nature, yet affordable price. Other findings showed that 63% of consumers polled are willing to pay more for such a product.

Bioactive Offers Natural Sterilization

Bioactive Resources LLC (South Plainfield, NJ) now offers natural sterilization for delicate nutraceutical ingredients, such as herbs, spices, botanicals, fruits, and vegetables, in response to FDA restrictions for sterilizing raw nutraceuticals. The firm says the sterilization process minimizes sterilization's impact on taste, color, and moisture.

Bio-Tract's China Patent

Bio-tract probiotics technology from Nutraceutix Inc. (Redmond, WA) gained its fourth international patent, from China. Bio-tract is said to deliver probiotics safely to the intestinal tract and offers a variety of release rates.

Ecuadorian's Marine-Ingredients White Paper

Ecuadorian Rainforest (Belleville, NJ) has made available its white paper that addresses possibilities for implementing marine ingredients in ingredient profiles. Health benefits from marine ingredients, along with good harvesting practices, are explained in the report.

US Pharma Gets Certified

US Pharma Lab Inc. (North Brunswick, NJ) has announced its recent achievement of CGMP certification. The company has facilities in China, India, and the United States.

NEC Enhances Tracking

National Enzyme Co. (NEC; Forsyth, MO) has announced a new, advanced digital internal tracking system that allows the company to manage the manufacturing process with a new level of traceability and detailed reporting befitting new CGMP regulations.

New Chirositol Web Site

Cyvex Nutrition (Irvine, CA) has launched a Web site exclusively for branded ingredient Chirositol. Chirositol is an extract from carob juice containing d-chiro-inositol, a secondary messenger stimulating insulin action.

Poms and Assoc. Forms Workers' Comp Group

Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. (Woodland Hills, CA) is uniting companies seeking to qualify as a California workers' compensation self-insurance group. Initially, the group will consist of contract manufacturing companies, which Poms says have the highest workers' compensation rates among all types of dietary supplement companies.

UC-II Gets GMP-Certified

InterHealth Nutraceuticals Inc. (Benicia, CA) has announced that its UC-II undenatured type II collagen for joint health has received CGMP certification from NSF International.

New Cacti-Nea Study

A recent study on Bio-Serae Laboratories' (Bram, France) Cacti-Nea natural water extract of prickly pear cactus fruit has shown the ingredient can help limit mass fat gain, as well as significantly reduce water mass in those with water retention. The 28-day double-blind placebo-controlled clinical study included 49 women with normal BMI who were given a daily 2-g dose of Cacti-Nea.

POLL FOR PALATINOSE A focus group sponsored by Beneo-Palatinit (Mannheim, Germany) was attracted to the use of Palatinose in energy, sports, and wellness drinks. Palatinose is a fully digestible, low-GI carbohydrate that provides prolonged energy in the form of glucose. Research was conducted among 158 participants in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Deerland Updates Lab

Deerland Enzymes (Kennesaw, GA) announced the start of operations at its new laboratory this fall. Expanded work stations and investments in equipment provide improved quality assurance, research and development, application development, and technical support.

Fortitech Finishes Facility

Fortitech Inc. (Schenectady, NY) completed construction of its new facility in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Malaysia facility will be Fortitech's second largest operation worldwide and will include a large manufacturing and distribution center, and a premix laboratory.

PS Patent Filed

Chemi Nutra (White Bear Lake, MN) and Increnovo (Milwaukee), two companies that have been collaborating on research for phosphatidylserine (PS), have filed for a novel patent for the oral use of PS to maintain healthy testosterone levels.

NHK Labs Certified

NHK Laboratories (Santa Fe Springs, CA) has received ISO 9001:2008 certification from NSF International. "Our private-label clients can rest assured that we have [procedures] and protocols in place designed to manufacture quality into the product, instead of solely relying on postproduction testing," says M. Amirul Karim, CEO of NHK Labs.

Sabinsa Receives Patent

Sabinsa Corp. (Piscataway, NJ) has received a patent for piperine, a black pepper extract that the firm markets as branded ingredient BioPerine. BioPerine is a 98% piperine extract serving as a thermogenic ingredient for increased nutrient bioavailability to the body.

DSM Presents Nutrition Awards

DSM has awarded its 2009 Nutrition Awards to professors Michael F. Holick of Boston University and Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. The professors were recognized for their research on vitamin D for human health.

NSF Gets SQF, BRC Accreditation

NSF International (Ann Arbor, MI) announced that it is the first organization in North America to obtain both British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Safe Quality Food (SQF) accreditation from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

U.S. Omega Launches

New company U.S. Omega Inc. (Santa Ana, CA) began operations in September, launching its premier product, Omega-3 Fish Oil 1000-mg soft gels, which will be available in retail stores and for medical practitioners in retail-ready bottles or in bulk.