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NOW Continues Testing of Dietary Supplement Brands Sold on Amazon
NOW continued its award-winning industry self-policing program of testing unfamiliar brands found on Amazon, and the cheating continues, the company stated. The program, begun in 2017, tests high value products sold by unheard of brands on Amazon at both internal and external labs, and evaluates the results compared to label claims. NOW reexamined eight brands ...
GNC Launches Amazon Alexa Voice Ordering Capabilities
Global health and wellness brand, GNC, has launched hands-free voice-activated ordering via Amazon Alexa voice-enabled devices. As one of the only major vitamins and supplements retailers to currently offer this functionality, GNC is providing customers an accessible, convenient way to shop, the company stated. Users will be able to link their GNC accounts during the ...
Vitamin Retailer’s Top 10 Stories of 2021
2021 has been an interesting year for people around the world, as COVID-19 declined during the summer months and spiked again as the cooler months began. It comes as no surprise that many of Vitamin Retailer magazine’s most popular stories this year have to do with the subject of the pandemic and its effects on ...
Amazon Updates Dietary Supplement Compliance Program
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has reported that early this month, Amazon updated its policy for vendors of dietary supplements on the Amazon platform. Amazon has maintained such a policy since at least late 2018, and has amended the policy on several occasions in the interim. In revisions to that policy posted on November ...
NOW Tests on Curcumin/Turmeric Extract Sold by Amazon
Continuing the work to disclose alarming quality failings and misleading, inaccurate labels among unfamiliar brands of products purchased on Amazon, NOW has turned their attention to the curcumin/turmeric category, finding similarly poor results, the company stated. Having previously tested multiple categories of suspect supplements purchased on Amazon that revealed low potency and poor quality control, ...
NOW Raises Concerns About Phosphatidyl Serine Supplements Purchased on Amazon.com
Following NOW’s (Bloomingdale, IL) report earlier this year of CoQ10, acetyl-l-carnitine and SAMe supplements with alarming quality and labeling problems sold on Amazon, NOW has identified similar serious failings in the phosphatidyl serine (PS) category, the company stated. NOW purchased and tested a group of PS products on Amazon, choosing this particular supplement for several ...
Online Grocery Sales Flourish for Retailers
In second quarter earnings, both Sprouts Farmers Market and Amazon saw positive results, with online sales serving as a huge contributing factor—during the current COVID-19 pandemic. According to Supermarket News, e-commerce sales increases and more effective promotions pushed Sprouts Farmers Market’s income up 91 percent from a year ago to $67 million, in the second ...
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 ...
Natural Product Retailers Adjust to COVID-19 Realities
With restaurants, grocery stores and other retailers scrambling to adapt their businesses during the COVID-19 outbreak, natural product retailers in the U.S. are also adjusting practices to meet the needs of their communities. World of Nutrition (WON) in Nampa, ID said it is remaining open during the pandemic, and is considering special hours for senior ...
Amazon Responds to Organic & Natural Health Association’s CBD Investigation
In October, the Organic & Natural Health Association looked into Amazon’s CBD selling practices by putting Amazon’s bestseller, New Age Premium Hemp Oil, to the test. The association hired an independent, third-party lab, California-based Alkemist Labs, to test for the presence and levels of cannabinoids. After testing a sample of New Age Premium Hemp Oil 1000 MG, ...
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