dietary supplements
St. Paul Legacy Business Mastel’s Health Foods to Live on Through New Owners
Mastel’s Health Foods (St. Paul, MN), an independently owned health food store that won Vitamin Retailer‘s 2021 Retailer of the Year award, has announced that it will now be owned and operated by two of its current employees. After years of dedicated service to the store, general manager Lauren Gaffney and marketing manager Alina Hornfeldt ...
Natural Grocers Debuts Free Personalized Shopping Experience with Nutritional Health Coach
Natural Grocers has announced its Personalized Shopping Experience at select stores. This free service provided by Natural Grocers is designed with the customer in mind. The Nutritional Health Coach (NHC) will customers them as they shop, offering expert product knowledge and recommending products to support their personal goals, the company stated. During a free one-on-one Personalized ...
Clorox Attempting to Sell Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements Business
Bleach maker Clorox Co. has been seeking to divest its vitamins, minerals and supplements (VMS) business after efforts to scale it led to major losses, according to four people familiar with the situation. The VMS business represents just 3 percent of Clorox’s total net sales, yet in 2021 it forced it to take a $267 ...
NOW Reveals Testing Results of Bromelain Supplements Purchased on Amazon
NOW continued its award-winning industry self-policing program of testing unfamiliar brands found on Amazon, this time on Bromelain, according to the company. The testing revealed some of the most abysmal results since the program began six years ago, the company stated. Although NOW has shared this information widely, with the goal of addressing bad quality ...
FDA Launches New Directory of Ingredients Used in Products Marketed as Dietary Supplements
On March 6, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began unveiling its new Dietary Supplement Ingredient Directory, a webpage where the public can look up ingredients used in products marketed as dietary supplements and quickly find what the FDA has said about that ingredient and whether the agency has taken any action with regard ...
Natural Grocers Kicks off 5th Annual Beat the Time Change Blues Event
Natural Grocers wanted to help make the time change adjustment a bit more enjoyable with its fifth annual Beat the Time Change Blues event, March 11 – 14, 2023. The event is intentionally slated to run before and after the actual time change to soften the blow of “losing an hour.” Customers will enjoy savings, free samples ...
FDA’s $7.2 Billion Proposal to Biden Administration Includes Modernization of DSHEA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released its list of $7.2 billion FY 2024 Legislative Proposals, which includes modernizing the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). “Since the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) was enacted almost 30 years ago, the dietary supplement market in the U.S. has grown ...
NPA and ANH File Citizen’s Petition With FDA on Specific NMN Relief
The Natural Products Association (NPA) along with the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) in a Citizen’s Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested the FDA: Determine nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) is not excluded from the definition of a dietary supplement under 21 U.S.C. §321(ff)(3)(B); Commit to exercising enforcement discretion in connection with the marketing ...
Natural Products Expo West 2023 to be Held This Week
Natural Products Expo West 2023, the natural and organic industry’s largest annual event, kicks off this week from March 7-11 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. Presented by New Hope Networks, the event will cover a range of educational topics discussed by speakers and panels of distinguished industry experts. Subjects will include “The ...
NPA Asks Amazon to Restore NMN Sales
The Natural Products Association (NPA) has called on e-commerce retailers to continue selling products containing beta-nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) after Amazon’s Restricted Products Team told sellers in an email on Feb. 16 that those products would be banned after March 13, 2023. For perspective, Whole Foods Market continued to sell NAC when Amazon removed NAC from ...
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