The United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA), a trade organization for dietary supplement and natural health companies, recently announced several new members.  The new members include suppliers, science and regulatory firms, and finished product brands.
 
“These new members represent the types of companies that form the very fabric of the dietary supplement industry,” said Loren Israelsen, president of UNPA. “It is our pleasure to welcome them to the UNPA family.”
 
New Executive Members
 
UNPA’s new executive members include:
 
Advanced Powder Dynamics, a company specializing in spray-drying, contract manufacturing, and powder product innovation. Its atomization technology allows the company to develop cost-effective processes for some of the most difficult nutraceutical and food ingredients.
 
Calroy Health Sciences, a brand of dietary supplements sold through the healthcare practitioner channel. The company conducts research to create and validate its formulations, while implementing quality control to ensure product safety and effectiveness.
 
Chenland Nutritionals, a supplier of herbal formulations to the dietary supplements industry. All of its formulations are backed by in vitro studies, preclinical animal trials, mechanism-of-action studies via proteomic biotechnology, and toxicity studies, which all precede human clinical trials to support efficacy and safety.
 
Doctor’s Best, a 30-year-old physician-founded dietary supplement brand focused on high-quality ingredients from leading manufacturers.
 
Ethical Naturals, Inc., a supplier of botanicals and custom finished products from its NSF-certified, cGMP facility. All of its raw material, testing, and manufacturing services operate under the NSF-registered program, ensuring that every aspect of its supply chain is audited.
 
Premier Research Labs, a brand of excipient- and preservative- free nutritional products and superfoods sold on the healthcare practitioner channel. Its proudcts are formulated for a wide variety of health needs, including adrenal support, neurological health, brain function, and blood sugar management.
 
Stratum Nutrition, a supplier of nutritional ingredients and delivery technologies for the human and pet health markets. Aside from manufacturing its own dietary supplement ingredients, the company also partners with ingredient providers that align with its values and science-driven claims.
 
TCI Biotech, a contract development and manufacturing organization specializing in formulations with unique, new-to-market characteristics for the skin care and dietary supplement industries. It is focused on developing economy, environment, and society, creating sustainable value and business potential.
 
Tesseract Medical Research, a dietary supplement brand which created a delivery system to protect nutrients during digestion for greater bioavailability. The copmany’s CyLoc technology encases each molecule of active ingredients in its own dextrin fiber delivery cage, while its DexKey technology then releases active ingredients.
 
Nutraland USA, a supplier of sustainable, plant-based nutritional ingredients for food, beverage, and supplement products. The company is focused on clean-label, high-quality, sustainable solutions that meet cosumers’ evolving needs.
 
New Science, Technology, Professional Services Members
 
New UNPA members from scientific, technology, and professional services include:
 
Canomiks, a company founded by academics and scientists with over 50 years of combined experience in bioinformatics, genomics, medicine, clinical science, and pharmacology. The company uses genomics and an AI-based platform to innovate new formulations and validate, test, and certify the biological efficacy and safety of ingredients and formulations for the dietary supplement, functional food, and skin care industries.
 
Rubicon Bridge, a company made up of regulatory compliance experts that has developed a tool to automate the process. Dietary supplement consumers who use the tool can check existing formulations for compliance and automatically generate product labels and digital assets in multiple languages.
 
Supplement Advisory Group – Asa Waldstein, a provider of regulatory support for dietary supplement and hemp product marketers. The firm focuses on finding marketing risks and providing practical lower-risk solutions on the web, social media, and product labels.
 
WBX Commerce, a performance-focused, tech-enabled Amazon advertising agency. The company optimizes, scales, and automates campaigns to get the greatest return on each investment, so its customers can focus on building a portfolio of great products.