Articles by Angela Sabarese
Vibrant Health Celebrates 30 Years in Business
In 2022, Vibrant Health is celebrating its 30th year in business. The company was founded 30 years ago when clinical nutritionist Mark Timon formulated and produced the first bottles of Green Vibrance. In the early 90s, “superfoods,” “greens” and “nutritional supplements” were not common terms among the general U.S. population. The natural products industry was ...
NPA Says Mandatory Product Listing is a “Non-Starter” and Amounts to “Pre-Market Approval”
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has issued a statement on the President’s FY 2023 Budget Request to Congress regarding the section on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “FDA’s proposal to include mandatory product listing in their FY23 budget request is a non-starter,” said Dr. Daniel Fabricant, the association’s president and CEO. “Year after ...
CRN Dismisses FDA Response on N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC)
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) on March 31 denounced FDA’s decision regarding the legal status of n-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) as a dietary ingredient. “CRN is extremely disappointed and unconvinced by FDA’s response today that it has chosen to deny CRN’s citizen’s petition while holding out the possibility that it may open a rulemaking specific to NAC instead,” ...
Rhode Island is Latest State to Target Dietary Supplements with Excessive Regulation
Rhode Island’s state legislature is considering legislation that is similar to new rules passed in California and New York that would require all retailers to move safe sand legal nutritional supplements behind the counter, prohibit their sales to people under the age of 18 and levy fines of up to $2,000 for those who do ...
Navitas Organics to Launch Earth Month Giveback Program
Navitas Organics is continuing to celebrate the rollout of Superfoods with Purpose, a credo highlighting the company’s commitment to creating a healthier world through regenerative organic farming and plant-based lifestyles, which it announced at the beginning of this year. Additionally, in alignment with Earth Month and the brand’s ongoing support of A Growing Culture (AGC), ...
CRN’s Mister Applauds COSMOS Research, Says Results to Drive Industry Innovation
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has commented on the results of the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS), which were published on March 16, 2022, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, in two separate papers: • Multivitamins in the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease: The COSMOS randomized clinical trial • Effect ...
Dr. Bronner’s Announces Partnership in Support of New Documentary Film
Dr. Bronner’s has announced its role as presenting partner of the new documentary film, Coextinction. An award-winning documentary on the extinction crisis, Coextinction debuted at film festivals in 2021, and will be distributed by Blue Ant Media and officially released globally in 2022. Dr. Bronner’s has helped fund the impact production of the film and will partner with the ...
Myth vs. Fact: CRN Debunks Melatonin Myths
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has debunked myths about melatonin, a common sleep aid, for this year’s National Sleep Day, March 18. According to CRN’s 2021 Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements, 70 percent of supplement users regularly get a good night’s sleep compared with 62 percent of non-users. The 2021 survey also indicates 11 percent ...
New Hope Adjusts Policies Following Sexual Harassment Complaints at Expo West
New Hope Network, the media company responsible for the annual Natural Products Expo West event, has changed its trade show policies in response to complaints of sexual harassment at the event, which took place March 8-12 in Anaheim, CA. Mariam Elghani, founder of Mariam’s Garlic Goddess, which exhibited at the trade show, stated in a ...
BIO-CAT Microbials Invests $35 Million in State-of-the-Art Virginia Fermentation Facility
BIO-CAT Microbials, LLC, a Virginia-based microbial solutions company, has recently announced a $35 million investment to significantly expand its Troy, VA facility to include fermentation capabilities. The company will be breaking ground on an initial 53,800 square-foot expansion phase in March of 2022, with potential future expansion up to an additional 100,000 square feet. The expansion, anticipated to be completed in ...
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