Seed breeding is a business that caters to its customers now more than ever before.
A rundown on food-safety inspection systems makes the right inspection tools more important than ever.
What's changing? Industry initiative for enhanced self-regulation of GRAS practices is likely.
Surprising to some, wheatgrass and other cereal grasses can be an important food for those seeking a gluten-free diet.
Don’t Let Regulatory Infractions Put Your Dietary Supplement Trademark Rights at Risk
IADSA Creates a Global Guide for Good Manufacturing Practices for Dietary Supplements
Elderly customers should be a prime target for food and supplement marketing.
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed into law on January 4, 2011, makes significant amendments to the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act (FDCA). It requires FDA to implement a sweeping array of new regulations and enforcement policies, intended to better ensure the safety of food products marketed in the United States, including dietary supplements.
Here's one industry expert's opinion.
Companies often respond to the onset of a poor economy by cutting operating costs. And much of the time, marketing and advertising budgets are the prime targets.
Are EU nutrient profiles back on the agenda, under the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation?
Whole-food supplements are a growing force in the supplements aisle.
List renting is a huge business in direct marketing. If you don’t know where to find the right customer list, or know what to look for in a list, your product promotion could literally fall into the wrong hands.
The private-label supplement industry is especially reliant on social media and the web, so staying on top of the latest social media trends is key to connecting with your health and supplement customers.
Two decades later, supplement users seek choice, take control.
A manufactured beverage’s taste is its raison d’etre-its purpose for being. In the words of Scott Backman, market development manager, functional food and food technology for global ingredient supplier Cognis Nutrition & Health (La Grange, IL), “Taste is the most important factor in a beverage. The consumer has an expectation when consuming a beverage. If that expectation is not met, the beverage will fail.”
We all know the importance of raw materials to a high-quality product. Raw materials are in fact the foundation of a qualified final product.
Could potential legislative changes affect what Daily Values mean on nutrition labels?
It is extremely important to assess whether current research on these ingredients lives up to media hype.
The soy ingredient industry has seen dramatic improvements in both process and application technologies, particularly over the last decade. Food and beverage manufacturers are defining specific issues as they include soy ingredients in formulations.