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Industry Responds to Oregon AG Lawsuit Against GNC
The natural products industry is responding to a lawsuit filed by Oregon Attorney General (AG) Ellen Rosenblum alleging that supplement retailer GNC (Pittsburgh, PA) violated the state’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act. The lawsuit accuses GNC of selling workout supplements containing picamilon, a prescription drug used to treat neurological conditions. Acting Deputy Director of the Dietary ...
Association’s ‘Natural’ Definition to Go Beyond Organic Standard
Organic & Natural Health Association (Organic & Natural) released the results of a consumer research study conducted as the first step in their initiative to set the standard for the term “natural.” The online research study of 1,005 U.S. consumers was conducted by Natural Marketing Institute (NMI). The study found that one in three consumers ...
Supplier of Tainted Weight-loss “Supplements” Gets Prison Sentence
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Cheryl Floyd, 52, Harrisburg, owner of Floyd Nutrition LLC, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo today in Harrisburg for introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce and money laundering. Judge Rambo ...
Global Consumers Will Pay More for Sustainable Brands
According to PRNewsWire.com, 66 percent of global consumers say they are willing to pay more for sustainable brands, which is up from 55 percent in 2014. Global Millennials are willing to pay extra too, 75 percent of them, which is also up from 50 percent in 2014. The Nielsen Global Cooperate Sustainability Report shows that ...
Olympian Labs Challenge: Transform Your Body in 47 Days
Olympian Labs, Inc., an Arizona-based national health supplement company, partnered with Arizona-based Jeremy Scott Fitness to bring the “47-Day Body Transformation Challenge” to 26 participants from Arizona to Maine. The challenge took place between August 10 and September 26. Arizona participants trained at Jeremy Scott Fitness in Scottsdale, AZ, while those out of state, completed ...
Organic Farmers: Expand Markets and Increase Sales
The United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Statistics Services (NASS) released results from the 2014 Organic Production Survey, which is the first “comprehensive snapshot of organic agriculture since 2008,” according to a press release. “This survey is incredibly valuable because it provides important trend data for the organic industry and farmers interested in transitioning ...
Whole Foods Reducing Workforce
Whole Foods Market announced that it will be laying off about 1,500 jobs over an eight-week period. This will result in a 1.6 percent decrease in the workforce for Whole Foods Market. “This is a very difficult decision, and we are committed to treating affected team members in a caring and respectful manner. We have ...
Peanut Corporation of America Sentencing
In 2008-2009 a deadly outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium killed nine and resulted in many sickened. The executives of the company, Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), were criminally charged in 2014, along with production managers who knew about the salmonella contamination. Stewart Parnell, second-generation chief executive of the family-owned peanut enterprise, was sentenced to 28 years ...
Topical BioMedics Visited by Max Wohlgemuth Kitslaar
New York-based Topical BioMedics Inc. hosted Amsterdam resident Max Wohlgemuth Kitslaar at the conclusion to his six-month, 10,000 mile motorcycle journey from Santiago, Chile to New York. Kitslaar’s journey, titled “Connecting Las Americas” is a project to document socially-conscious businesses that work toward creating a better world. He then shared those stories online with posts ...
Bayer Defeats FTC in Supplement Contempt Case
The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) suit vs. Bayer over probiotic claims has favored Bayer, denying the FTC’s motion to hold Bayer in contempt of a 2007 consent order for promoting Phillips’ Colon Health. The suit was about whether or not clinical trials were necessary for Bayer to conduct before it promoted Phillips’ Colon Health probiotics. ...
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