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Governor Closes Nevada Health Food Stores
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, in defiance of guidance from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ordered the closure of health food stores during the COVID-19 public health crisis. Specifically, the governor’s order will restrict access to a wide range of essential products sold by health food stores, including water, electrolytes, nutritional supplements, healthy food options and other ...
Amazon and Instacart Employees Strike for COVID-19 Pay
According to NPR, Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, NY, and Instacart’s grocery delivery workers nationwide plan to walk off their jobs on Monday. They are demanding stepped-up protection and pay as they continue to work while much of the country is asked to isolate as a safeguard against the coronavirus. The strikes come as ...
Albertsons Partners With Businesses to Offer Part-time Jobs to Furloughed Employees
Throughout the country, businesses have been forced to close or scale back operations, furlough employees or reduce hours due to the COVID-19 crisis. Idaho-based Albertsons Companies is partnering with major companies to provide part-time jobs to their employees who have been furloughed or had their hours cut. “The most valuable asset and the core of ...
NPA Mobilizes Grassroots Network to Keep Health Food Stores Open
The Natural Products Association (NPA) mobilized its grassroots network in recent days, sending over 10,000 letters to elected officials across the country requesting that health food stores remain open as essential businesses during the COVID-19 public health crisis. Thousands of health food stores have remained open based on guidance from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ...
NPA: Economic Stimulus Package Provisions Will Help Dietary Supplement Industry
The Natural Products Association (NPA) today said the bipartisan economic stimulus package passed by Congress and expected to be signed by President Trump contains a host of provisions that will help the industry, including: • $1 billion for the Defense Production Act to bolster domestic supply chains, allowing industry to increase production of personal protective equipment ...
Paragon Laboratories to Donate 3,600 N95 Masks to Local Hospitals
Paragon Laboratories (Torrance, CA), a manufacturer of dietary supplements, will donate 3,600 N95 respirators to local hospitals in the Southern California area. With the growing shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks, respirators, face shields, and gowns, health care workers are having to stretch their supplies, which poses a risk to them and the ...
Dietary Supplements Regulatory Summit Rescheduled
The 2020 Dietary Supplements Regulatory Summit (DSRS), originally set for May 27, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the same venue, the Mayflower Hotel, in Washington, D.C. All existing registrations and pricing will be honored. New, discounted hotel booking information will be forthcoming shortly. “The five trade associations hosting the summit look forward ...
Carlson Ceases Production and Distribution Through April 7
On Friday, March 20, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker issued a “stay-at-home” order to maximize COVID-19 containment and to ensure that the state’s health care system remains fully operational. The order took effect at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 21, 2020 and continues through Tuesday, April 7, 2020. As a producer and distributor of nutritional supplements, ...
CRN Offers Resource Page on COVID-19
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) recently developed a resource page centered around COVID-19: https://www.crnusa.org/COVID-19. One of the new resources includes a COVID-19 FAQ sheet developed by CRN for industry and consumers to answer common questions surrounding the virus and dietary supplement products. CRN said it will continue to keep it updated as information changes and more outside ...
Message from VRM Media about Coronavirus
To our readers and business partners, In these challenging times for all businesses and individuals operating within the natural products community, we at VRM Media — publisher of Vitamin Retailer, Nutrition Industry Executive, Natural Practitioner and Fitness Trainer — want to first express our sincerest wishes for the best of health and well-being to all industry members and their families. As we are all quite ...
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