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Humanitarian organizations Sight and Live and Vitamin Angels are teaming up to provide vitamin A to children in India deficient in the nutrient.

The Natural Products Association (NPA; Washington, DC) has renamed its annual trade show the Natural Products Association MarketPlace.

The Life…supplemented campaign has renewed its partnership with humanitarian organization Vitamin Angels. For every active participant in an online video stream hosted today by Life…supplemented, the organization will donate $10 (up to $10,000 total) to Vitamin Angels.

The grant will help the company commercialize its AnthoPure technology for developing anthocyanins through fermentation.

A new method for checking content of naturally derived ingredients, along with several new standards for select food ingredients, has been introduced.

The company will now highlight levels of two purity-related compounds in its krill oil ingredients.

The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN; Washington, DC) has announced Jim Hamilton, president of DSM Nutritional Products USA Inc. (Parsippany, NJ), as the new chair of the association’s board of directors.

Could FDA make a move to ban synthetic food dyes? According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, the agency has scheduled a March hearing to discuss whether these dyes may be risky to the health of young children.

A new mid-volume optical tablet-inspection system is ideal for smaller manufacturers and contract packagers.

A new product combining probiotics and organic spirulina will be unveiled at the Natural Products Expo West trade show in Anaheim, CA, in March.

The agency sent a letter of intent to key stakeholders.

2012 nutrition labels will require facts like total calories and total fat content.

Food ingredients developer A&B Ingredients is now offering a new natural preservative, CytoGuard Stat-N, to its line of microbials.

Total Nutraceutical Solutions, a developer of mushroom-based dietary supplements, has announced a new venture with Koch International to bring TNS products to the South Korean market.

The children's fruit snack will be available in January.

“Life…supplemented,” a campaign created by the Council of Responsible Nutrition (CRN; Washington DC) to encourage healthy living, has announced its 2011 Wellness Challenge.

The Mambo Sprouts Marketing 2011 Organic Consumer Survey Report highlights the buying habits of 1000 natural product consumers.

The agency is mulling coexistence measures for conventional and GMO alfalfa.

The Canadian dairy cooperative Agropur (Longueuil, QC) has announced its acquisition of Main Street Ingredients (La Crosse, WI), a company specializing in functional foods and technical expertise.

Probiotic industry specialists are hoping that the FTC’s recent dispute with Dannon (White Plains, NY) over probiotic label claims will not devalue the sound science that exists within the field of probiotic science.

See a list of foreign flavors expected to trend next year.

Vedic Lifesciences (Redwood Shores, CA) is extending its free clinical trial design consultations on dietary supplements and functional food products to one additional quarter.

Stuart Reeves, PhD, director of R&D for Embria Health Sciences has been appointed to the external advisory board for Iowa State University’s Nutrition and Wellness Research Center.

The ingredient has passed a safety review for its use as a chromium source.

The organization hopes to increase India's organic consumers and organic exports.

Royal DSM N.V. (DSM; Heerlen, Netherlands) announced today that it is acquiring algal ingredient manufacturer Martek Bioscience Corporation (Martek; Columbia, MD) for the sum of $1087 million.

The Council for Responsible Nutrition has announced joint efforts with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation to raise awareness of the importance of dietary supplements and the role of nurse practitioners in modern health.

Nordic Naturals (Watsonville, CA) is now donating DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) to children in the Dominical Republic through the Vitamin Angels “Thrive to Five” program.

After a lengthy exchange of debates and rewrites, the U.S. House today passed the Food Safety Modernization Act by a vote of 215 to 144.

Dietary supplements brand Herbalife has launched a Herbalife Nutrition Institute website to provide visitors with nutrition information, as well as news about the latest research.