Natural Grocers’ stock price plunged more than 25% yesterday after the company missed profit projections in its most recent earnings statement. The stock price decline came despite an uptick in revenue.
The application of statistical techniques to personalized nutrition has allowed Sergio Radovcic, founder of supplement marketer Styr Labs, to take the concept to new levels of sophistication.
Accusations levelled at Nestlé claim the Swiss corporate giants mislead consumers with nutritional claims about its infant formula products, flouting ethical marketing codes in the process.
Immudyne, a company founded on the development of a beta glucan immune health ingredient, has sold that business amid a restructuring that positions it solely as a direct response marketing company.
An NIH communique on weight loss and sports performance supplements takes a dim view of the science backing for these ingredients, while at the same time providing a valuable service to industry, sources said.
Michigan-based Zivo Bioscience signed an agreement with Chinese algae producer Tianjin Norland Biotech, making the latter one of the first growers to be signed by Zivo to supply dried biomass for different applications.
Dietary supplement industry groups have heavily criticized a new meta-analysis in JAMA Cardiology that concluded that omega-3 fatty acid supplementation had no significant impact on fatal or nonfatal coronary heart disease or any major vascular events.
French speciality ingredients supplier Naturex has already launched two new products on the back of a global agreement with Cura Global Health for its line of fermented Koji Minerals.
Nano sensors used to track how vitamin D3 affects cells have shown it is able repair damage to the heart brought on by metabolic conditions, including high blood pressure, diabetes and atherosclerosis.