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Alpha Packaging (St. Louis), ranked as the 21st largest packaging blow molder in the United States, has completed its largest acquisition to date, of Progressive Plastics Inc. (Cleveland).

Cyvex Nutrition (Irvine, CA), which last week announced its acquisition by Omega Protein, also announced that it has renewed and expanded a distribution deal with Toronto-based CK Nutritional Ingredients.

Sabinsa Corp. (East Windsor, NJ) has received a solubility patent for forskolin, a Coleus forskohlii extract, from the People’s Republic of China.

Coca-Cola is looking to innovate its zero and reduced-calorie beverages.

The Natural Products Association (NPA; Washington, DC) has reached a new milestone, granting its 500th NPA Natural Seal certification.

The earlier version proved problematic.

The Environmental Protection Agency published its final rule on Friday.

FDA yesterday issued a guidance aimed at helping small businesses understand the dietary supplements Current Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

Omega-3 supplier Omega Protein (Houston) has acquired Cyvex Nutrition (Irvine, CA), the companies announced today.

According to Poms & Associates (Los Angeles), an insurance brokerage firm focused on dietary supplement companies, drugstore chain Walgreens has recently begun enforcing higher liability insurance requirements for dietary supplement marketers.

NP Nutra (Rancho Dominguez, CA) has launched its line of certified-organic Green Grass Superfoods, including wheatgrass powder, barley grass powder, and alfalfa grass powder.

Cyvex Nutrition (Irvine, CA) will continue to market its antioxidant and nutraceutical ingredient lines in Canada through Toronto-based partner CK Nutritional Ingredients, Cyvex announced earlier this week. The renewed partnership between the two companies will be effective through 2013.

The FTC announced yesterday that it has entered into a consent agreement with Dannon in which the brand will drop what the FTC says are deceptive advertising claims for its probiotic Activia yogurt and DanActive dairy drink.

The FTC announced on Monday that it has reached a settlement with major children’s vitamins brands to cease healthy-brain and eye-development claims.

In a proactive move to address tainted dietary supplements in the U.S. market, FDA today announced it has introduced new tools to both publicize and gather reports of adulterated products.

Chemi Nutra (White Bear Lake, MN) is employing new, advanced technology in its advertising that enables customers to utilize special software and smartphone applications that read coded data and then trigger actions such as launching a website.

Chemi Nutra (White Bear Lake, MN) is employing new, advanced technology in its advertising that enables customers to utilize special software and smartphone applications that read coded data and then trigger actions such as launching a website.

A probiotic strain produced by BioGaia (Raleigh, NC) has demonstrated a substantially reduced frequency of regurgitation in infants.

Ganeden Biotech (Cleveland) has launched a line of chewable dog supplements containing the company’s Ganeden BC30 Bacillus coagulans probiotic strain.

President Obama today signed off on The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which will for the first time set nutrition standards for all foods provided in schools.

The dietary supplements industry will have the valuable opportunity to meet with member of Congress, especially new members, during the Natural Products Association’s (NPA; Washington, DC) 14th annual Natural Products Day on Wednesday, April 6.

The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA; Silver Spring, MD) has submitted its comments on FTC’s proposed changes to its Green Guides covering the use of environmental marketing claims.

According to supplements brand Macular Health, a recent study showed that its supplement for age-related macular degeneration dissolves up to five-and-a-half times faster than other leading eye vitamin supplements.

BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) successfully completed its acquisition of Cognis Holding GmbH yesterday for an equity purchase price of €700 million, the company announced.

Total Nutraceutical Solutions Inc. (TNS; Stevenson, WA), an R&D developer of mushroom-based products, has signed a product development and licensing agreement with D is for Dogs to distribute a line of mushroom-based pet products in North America.

The organic food and drinks market is recovering from the economic slowdown, and revenues are expected to near $60 billion this year, said Organic Monitor in its latest Global Organic Food & Drink Market report. Starting next year, growth will happen at higher rates, it said.

They are said to be the industry's first commercially viable stevia patents.

A Cochrane review on 215,000 children and synthetic vitamin A supplementation.

Oat beta-glucan producer CreaNutrition AG announced the news.

Limu, a nutritional supplements marketer focusing on the benefits of fucoidan, has launched a new website designed to be an “information hub” on fucoidan.