Trends & Business

On September 23, 2024, trade groups and industry stakeholders testified before the New Jersey Legislature’s Assembly Health Committee in opposition to assembly bill A1848, which would prohibit the sale of weight management and muscle building supplements to minors.

Gordon’s leadership will focus on expanding testing services for dietary supplements and botanical products.

According to the report, over the last decade, women have made important gains at every level of the corporate pipeline, but the progress is “fragile.”

Howtian has launched an unrefined golden stevia extract called SoPure Dorado.

Mosaic Flavors (Chino, CA) has announced the acquisition of First Coast Flavors (Jacksonville, FL) to enhance Mosaic’s position as a premier provider of high quality, customizable flavor solutions.

The natural products manufacturer introduced three supplement products in the new line.

The U.S. Hemp Roundtable submitted comments to California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) on September 16th, urging the agency to overrule emergency regulations proposed by Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).

The addition to Brightseed’s Forage AI may help Botalys to fine tune and optimize the bioactive expression of its plant supply.

The new ingredient uses upcycled yeast as a sustainable and functional alternative to eggs.

The Attorney General's office says that non-alcoholic beverages with hemp-derived tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) with concentrations of delta-9 THC of no more than 0.3% are legal in South Carolina, assuming you can verify they meet this threshold.

Biofortis Research has announced that it will be participating in SupplySide West 2024, taking place in Las Vegas, NV on October 30 and 31st.

Understanding FODMAPs and how low-FODMAP diets are implemented.

The ingredient is manufactured by Gnosis by Lesaffre as an alternative to rhodiola extract. Salidroside is the most studied bioactive in rhodiola, to which the extract efficacy is attributed to.

The new range is the result of a recently acquired majority stake in Azerys, a specialist in rosemary extraction.

The study focused on the adulteration of black cohosh rhizome, echinacea root or herb, elder berry, ginkgo leaf, and turmeric root/rhizome. The authors reviewed 78 publications with a total of 2995 samples. Of the 2995 samples, 818 were reported to be adulterated or mislabeled.

The new product is a drink mix that combines the replenishing benefits of Ultima Replenisher’s existing electrolyte drink mixes with Nutrition21’s branded chromium picolinate, Chromax, which has been clinically shown to reduce cravings and manage appetite

The regulations would ban any hemp-derived food, beverage and dietary products from having any THC levels and impose an age restriction of 21 to purchase these products.

Balchem contracted Alkemist Labs to test 38 vitamin K2 products purchased on “one of the biggest e-commerce platforms in the United States.”

Dsm-firmenich has announced that its human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) ingredients – 3-fucosyllactose (3-FL) and lacto-N-fucopentaose I/2'-fucosyllactose (LNFP-I/2'-FL) mixture – have been approved as a novel food ingredients by the United Kingdom and European Union.

Two more presentations announced in the CONVERGENCE ’24 keynote speaker lineup.

NutriLeads BV has announced that it has entered into a sales and marketing agreement with Nexus Wise.

The Missouri Hemp Trade Association has filed a lawsuit in the Cole County Circuit Court seeking to prevent the Missouri DHSS from designating food and beverage products containing psychoactive cannabinoids derived from hemp as adulterated and implementing an embargo.

PharmaChem Innovations has announced that it will be launching as an independent company following its acquisition from Ashland Inc. by Turnspire Capital Partners LLC. Ashland Inc.

The agenda, keynote presentations, and more are announced for this year’s CONVERGENCE ’24 conference.

The Natural Products Association (NPA; Washington, D.C.) has announced that they filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its retroactive application of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C) against Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN).

Xampla has announced that Lehmann Ingredients will be the first distributor partner to supply the company’s nutrient microencapsulation technology to FMCG brands and supply chain partners in the United Kingdom.

The new line is made up of three gummies and one softgel that are formulated to meet stringent EU-Organic certification criteria, and target women’s health, metabolic health, and heart health.

According to the company’s announcement, the AI platform is able to identify real-time deviations or anomalies in GC Rieber VivoMega’s processing facilities and report them via a cloud-based, comprehensive, centralized system.

The Council for Responsible Nutrition has replied to a brief from the NYAG's office in response CRN's appeal of the court's dismissal of its motion for a preliminary injunction. The injunction would have halted enforcement of the law, banning the sale of weight management supplements to minors, until the outcome of the lawsuit.

The joint venture, called Gradable, will expand the Gradable technology platform originally introduced in 2020 to track sustainable and regenerative agricultural practices and outcomes.