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Brand Consolidation Renews Identity

July 1, 2008
Ingredient supplier Coast Chemical, Inc. and its southwestern regional division, Coast Southwest, Placentia, CA, have consolidated corporate brand names and logos. All company offices now operate under the single name: Coast Southwest, Inc. The objec…  Read More »
Nutri-Vet Relocates Select Services

July 1, 2008
Moving into a new 30,000 square foot distribution center, Nutri-Vet, Boise, ID, has a new facility located adjacent to the company’s management and sales offices. Customer service, purchasing, logistics and order fulfillment will operate out of…  Read More »
Patent Awarded

July 1, 2008
InterHealth Nutraceuticals, Benicia, CA, has been granted U.S. patent #7,335,651 B2 for its Super CitriMax ingredient, which promotes fat oxidation. In recent human clinical studies, Super CitriMax significantly increased fat burning, de­monstrat…  Read More »
Placebo Product Marketed as Dietary Supplement Stirs Controversy

July 1, 2008
After making an appearance on the “Today Show” in late May, Jennifer Buettner and her husband, founders of a company called Efficacy Brands, were hurled into the spotlight for creating a product named Obecalp—from the word placebo s…  Read More »
Correlation Found Between Pharmaceutical Advertising & Journal Coverage of Dietary Supplements

July 1, 2008
A new study published in the April 9th issue of BMC Complementary & Alternative Medicine concludes that increased pharmaceutical advertising in a medical journal may be associated with publishing few articles about dietary supplements and publish…  Read More »
Artificial Food Dyes Linked to Behavior Problems

July 1, 2008
Yellow 5, Red 40 and six other widely used artificial colorings are linked to hyperactivity and behavior problems in children and should be prohibited from use in foods, according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Was…  Read More »
Phase III CoQ10 Trial Initiated

July 1, 2008
The Huntington Study Group has launched a Phase III clinical trial, funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (part of the National Institutes of Health [NIH]), to determine the effect of the maximum effective dosage of Co…  Read More »
Court Orders Seasilver Defendants to Pay $120 Million

June 1, 2008
A U.S. appeals court has ordered the marketers of Seasilver, an alleged phony cure-all supplement, to pay roughly $120 million for failure to comply with an earlier ruling, which required them to pay $3 million in consumer redress. The decision by a…  Read More »
Glaxo to Acquire Red-Wine Pill Maker Sirtris

June 1, 2008
According to the April 22nd edition of the Wall Street Journal, GlaxoSmithKline will acquire Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a Massachusetts company that’s developing a drug based on resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine that is thought to fight s…  Read More »
Researchers Develop New Barley Strain

June 1, 2008
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer appeared at Montana State University recently to congratulate MSU-trained researchers for their development of BGLife Barley, a new strain of barley that promotes healthy blood sugar, offering the potential to help m…  Read More »
Experts Establish Thresholds for Amino Acids

June 1, 2008
Representatives from the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), Washington, D.C., recently authored risk assessments establishing safe upper intake levels for the amino acids taurine (Tau), glutamine (Gln) and arginine (Arg). The authors concluded…  Read More »
New USP Ginkgo Standards Raise Quality Bar

June 1, 2008
The U.S. Pharmacopoeia (USP) has taken steps to eliminate the discrepancy between European and U.S. Ginkgo biloba extract products. The U.S. has lagged behind Europe in developing detailed quality standards that define what the biochemical make-up of…  Read More »
Iranex Group Acquires Bio Serae

June 1, 2008
The Iranex Group, Rouen, France—consisting of Colloides Naturels International (CNI), Starlight Products, Nutriprocess and Afritec—has ac­quired Bio Serae Laboratories, Bram, France, a manufacturer and supplier with annual turnover of…  Read More »
Botaneco, Croda to Collaborate on Oil Formulations

June 1, 2008
Botaneco, Calgary, AB, Canada, has signed a feasibility agreement with Croda Enterprise Technology, Edison, NJ, to evaluate the possibility of adding functionality to echium oil, a specialty oil containing omega 3 fatty acids. Under the agreement, Cr…  Read More »
Guayaki Opens Yerba Mate Bar

June 1, 2008
Guayaki, Sebastopol, CA, has opened a classic Yerba Mate Bar in downtown Sebastopol, offering a wide variety of organic yerba mate beverage styles such as mate lattes, cappuccino mate, mate mocha, mate chai, java mate, spicy mayan mocha mate, mate sh…  Read More »

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