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NOW Makes Essential Oil Certificate of Analysis Available to Consumers
NOW has begun making all the certificates of analysis (CofA) for its line of more than 90 100 percent pure essential oils available for consumers to view via the NOW website. Each CofA, searchable by product lot number, shows the results of quality testing that each essential oil has undergone, confirming that it adheres to ...
NOW Celebrates 55th Anniversary
NOW (Bloomingdale, IL) is celebrating 55 years since founder Elwood Richard started the company by reaching new milestones in sustainability and transparency. “I know my father would be pleased that we have continued his commitment to doing what’s right for the environment and our customers, and are constantly raising the bar,” said Dan Richard, vice ...
NOW Switches to Bottles Made From PCR Recycled Resin, Reducing Millions of Pounds of Plastic
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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