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NOW Switches to Bottles Made From PCR Recycled Resin, Reducing Millions of Pounds of Plastic

by Angela Sabarese | January 25, 2023

As part of a decades-long mission to reduce environmental impact, NOW announced they have begun transitioning supplement bottles to 100 percent post-consumer recycled (PCR) resin. This transition will be rolled out initially to every product in the extensive supplement line currently packaged in white bottles, with sports nutrition, pet supplements and personal care lines to […]

Vitamin Retailer’s Top 10 Stories from 2022

by Angela Sabarese | December 22, 2022

Another year since the pandemic has come and gone, and compared to the previous two years, Vitamin Retailer‘s (VR) top stories have involved COVID-19 far less. Rather, the topics that were most popular in 2022 involved VR awards, information and solutions about different health ailments and those the industry has lost this year. The top […]

NOW Tests More Amazon.com Products

by Angela Sabarese | December 13, 2022

NOW (Bloomingdale, IL) has continued its testing of supplements from lesser-known brands purchased on Amazon, with this round on the popular mineral magnesium glycinate. Once again, the results showed misleading and inaccurate labeling and many of the products did not contain the claimed material, material form, or amounts, according to NOW. NOW discovered that almost […]

NOW Rebrands Tea Line to Give Back With Launch of Give a Tea

by Angela Sabarese | November 29, 2022

NOW (Bloomingdale, IL) has given its tea line a makeover, with giving back to the community through food bank donations built into the business model. For every two boxes of Give a Tea purchased by retailers, one box of tea is donated to the Chicago Food Depository. “Food pantries expressed a big need for quality, […]

NOW Staff Promotion and New Hire

by Angela Sabarese | November 14, 2022

NOW (Bloomingdale, IL) Director of Quality Katarzyna “Katie” Banaszewski has been promoted to senior director of quality, and Yalda Shokooh, PharmD, PhD, has joined NOW as director of science and nutrition overseeing the nutritional science department. “For many years, NOW has made our quality team a priority, which included recruiting and promoting the best talent […]

NPA to Hold Educational Webinar Today on Identity and GMPs

by Angela Sabarese | October 11, 2022

Following a flurry of over 150 confusing and often contradictory warning letters from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to industry in the past [year/several months], the Natural Products Association (NPA) announced that it will host an interactive webinar providing insight, guidance, and educational support for the dietary supplement industry regarding identity within Good Manufacturing […]

Dr. Tieraona Low Dog Joins NOW Board of Directors

by Angela Sabarese | September 13, 2022

Dr. Tieraona Low Dog has joined NOW’s Board of Directors. She is recognized as one of the leading experts in integrative medicine, and is a noted physician, educator and author, including four books with National Geographic, 54 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 24 chapters for medical textbooks. She has been honored by numerous organizations over the […]

NOW Named Elite Winner of Chicago’s Best & Brightest Companies to Work For

by Angela Sabarese | July 22, 2022

NOW Foods (Bloomingdale, IL) has been recognized for the 15th consecutive year as one of Chicago’s Best & Brightest Companies to Work For. This year is NOW’s first time being honored as an Elite Winner in the Employee Achievement and Recognition category. Fourteen Elite Chicago area companies were honored for demonstrating exceptionally innovative human resource […]

NOW Presses Amazon to Act Against Deceptive Dietary Supplement Sellers

by Angela Sabarese | July 5, 2022

NOW continues to press Amazon to act against sellers of dietary supplements seeking to trick consumers into thinking their products are quality, the company stated. In the latest tactic, NOW said it spotted a brand posting certificates of analysis from a third-party testing lab on their website confirming fill weight. Not identity, potency or purity–just […]

NOW Continues Testing of Dietary Supplement Brands Sold on Amazon

by Angela Sabarese | May 9, 2022

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 […]

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