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Hyperbiotics Donation Enables Completion of a New Health Clinic in Bali
Nevada-based probiotics company, Hyperbiotics, completed its Dollar for Dollar Challenge Grant to help Bumi Sehat complete its new health clinic in Bali, Indonesia, enabling the nonprofit to expand services to approximately 1,500 gentle births per year. With the support of Earth Company, the Search Foundation, Anna Beck Jewelry, Michael Franti, Christy Turlington Burns’ Every Mother ...
Britain’s Informa to Boost U.S. Presence with Penton Deal
British business information group Informa Plc (INF.L) said on Thursday it had agreed to buy U.S.-based information services company Penton for $1.56 billion to expand in the United States and grow its global exhibitions business. The transaction is set to be funded by a combination of new debt and equity, including a fully underwritten rights issue ...
Nature’s Way Donates to Rainforest Conservation Efforts
Wisconsin-based Nature’s Way Brands, LLC donated 1 percent of its gross revenue from select products to the Rainforest Alliance. The donation helped support the international nonprofit to conserve biodiversity, ensure sustainable livelihoods, and promote the rights and well-being of workers, their families and communities. “Nature’s Way was born from the earth in 1968 and our mission ...
DEA Kratom Change “Toothless” Without Government Enforcement, Says NPA
The Natural Products Association (NPA) recently responded to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) decision to add kratom and mitragynine to its list of schedule I drugs. Dan Fabricant, Ph.D., CEO and executive director of NPA, said, “Kratom has been a public health target for almost five years, and its surging growth in use ...
New App Bridges the Gap Between Nutrition and Technology
Spain-based Monteloeder has launched a mobile digital solution that allows consumers to track the benefits of using its NutroxSun oral sun care formulation. Two years in development, the new app harnesses big data, clinical science and technology to deliver real-time personalized information to consumers so they can see how NutroxSun is working to protect their ...
Arnica Adulteration Bulletin Released by ABC-AHP-NCNPR
The ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Program announces the publication of a new Botanical Adulterants Bulletin (BAB) on arnica (Arnica montana). According to data from the market research firm SPINS, sales in all channels (excluding sales in Walmart, Whole Foods, club and dollar stores) of topical arnica products, sold predominantly as homeopathic remedies, have exceeded $20 million in ...
CRN Attends BlogHer16, the Leading Conference for Female Bloggers
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) served as an exhibiting sponsor at #BlogHer16: Experts Among Us, the largest conference worldwide that brings together women bloggers, that took place Aug. 4–6 in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to exhibiting at the three-day event, CRN hosted a special luncheon on Aug. 5, entitled “Get Healthy; Get Wise,” ...
Utah Attorney General Visits Twinlab Manufacturing Facility
Twinlab (American Fork, UT) recently hosted Utah’s Attorney General Sean Reyes in a tour of the company’s state-of-the-art, 178,000-square-foot laboratories and production facilities located at the base of the Wasatch Range. “We’re delighted that Attorney General Reyes could visit our research and production facilities, where our daily mission is to help people feel better, look ...
Natural Candle Factory Only Building Left Standing After California Wildfire
As firefighters continued battling a fast-moving 4,000-acre wildfire in Northern California that has destroyed 175 buildings and forced thousands of residents to flee, including the entire community of Lower Lake, one building remained standing: the Aloha Bay natural candle factory—a fixture in the center of town since 1993. High heat combined with precariously dry conditions ...
Leadership Award to Honor Organic Entrepreneur
A Canadian entrepreneur and hemp food pioneer will be honored as a “Rising Star” in the organic sector at the 2016 Organic Leadership Awards dinner in September hosted by the Organic Trade Association (OTA). Selected to receive the Organic Rising Star Award, Mike Fata of Canada-based Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods first became involved in the ...
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