SupplySide Global 2025: What’s happening off the show floor
From early morning yoga to the final closing party, here’s a preview of the experiences, events and energy happening beyond the booth aisles at SupplySide Global 2025.
Supply chain
Made in the USA: Biovivo brings botanical extraction manufacturing home
Jeffersonville, Indiana is now home to BioVivo Science’s new facility, marking a major shift from overseas dependency to domestic production. The $70 million investment into the new 100,000-square-foot facility will allow Biovivo to process 2,000 metric...
Sustainability September
The women driving sustainability
NutraIngredients sat down with the women championing sustainability efforts to discuss initiatives they’re working on, the challenges that exist and the push for progress.
Botanical quality in question: High strength, low cost innovation gives industry a bad rap
Scientists and industry gathered this week to address the quality control conundrum within the botanical supplement sector, noting cost-focused innovation, highly concentrated extracts, weak regulatory oversight, and the need for data to challenge safety...
Green Bioactives falls victim to cautious investor landscape, enters liquidation
“We were so close,” says Chris Meaney, chief business officer at Green Bioactives as Scottish biotech company enters liquidation.
Turning trash into treasure: Researchers uncover benefits of upcycling cherry waste
Researchers from the University of Kent have deciphered a method to utilize cherry waste— upcycling bruised, soft or discolored cherries and transforming the pulp into a food supplement ingredient.
Jellyfish collagen for brain health: Why Longevity By Nature calls it a ‘true category disruptor’
While most consumers are aware of collagen, they typically associate it with beauty and joint support sourced from bovine or fish. Abdul Alkayali, founder, Longevity By Nature, says that his Jellyfish collagen peptides break the mold entirely.
Researchers ‘rewire’ bacteria to produce more vitamin K2
A recent study from Rice University focused on metabolic engineering strategies that cause L. lactis to overproduce K2 in order to make it more sustainable and cost-effective.
NutraCast: The market, regulatory landscape and opportunity for peptides and bioregulators
BioLongevity Labs is a health optimization company that focuses on peptides, bioregulators and small molecules. While much of the biohacking community knows about these compounds, general awareness is low, with only 3% of Americans familiar with...
New methods target acerola adulteration
Researchers from the University of Guelph are proposing new fit-for-purpose methods to verify the authenticity of acerola species ingredients and tackle adulteration in the supply chain.
Tariffs: Supplement industry responds to new EU-US trade deal
Following months of apprehension, US president Donald Trump and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen finally struck a trade deal which will see EU goods incur a 15% tariff in the US. But what does this mean for the European dietary...
Sustainability summit: Time for action on botanical over-exploitation
Global experts convened this month to drive business investment in the sustainable cultivation and quality preservation of botanical ingredients.
IFT FIRST
The natural color boom is here – can suppliers keep up?
As brands ditch synthetic dyes like Red 40, it is not enough to go natural – the colors need to work across formulation, supply chain and stability demands
NutraCast: Christina Rahm on forging a new standard for clean manufacturing
Xoted Biotechnology Labs is putting science and sustainability at the forefront by launching a new R&D facility in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
Protecting nature’s medicine cabinet: Conserving botanical biodiversity through standards
Sustainability is new to pharmacopeias, which have set the standards for strength, quality and purity of botanical drugs in the United States since the 1800s.
Probiota Americas Day 2: Weight management, regulatory, CRISPR and Genetic engineering, and ID and enumeration
Day 2 of the 10th anniversary edition of Probiota Americas starts with a session on weight management and ends with a blockbuster panel on the regulatory landscape in the United States and Canada. The event is less than a month away so don’t wait to...
Supplement industry calls for exemption from pharmaceutical tariffs
Trade groups representing the dietary supplement industry are urging the U.S. Department of Commerce to exclude dietary supplements and their ingredients from any tariffs that may arise from a national security investigation into pharmaceutical imports.
Fish oil production surges early in 2025
Global fish oil production rose 34% in the first quarter of 2025 year on year, despite reduced yield from European waters.
Bracing for the unknown: How businesses are tackling tariffs
Tariffs are affecting virtually every industry in the United States, including dietary supplements. The topic dominated conversations at SupplySide Connect last week, with companies trying to figure out how to minimize risk based on very little information.
Across the Nutraverse: The tariffs rollercoaster, melatonin supplement label claims, Blackmores obtains B Corp
Catch up with our weekly round-up of key news from across the Nutraverse.
Oxford ICSB 2025: ‘A place for collaboration in a benign environment’
What started out as a small FDA-funded workshop on botanical authentication in 2002 gathered nearly 300 attendees from five continents for four days of sessions at last week’s 2025 International Conference on the Science of Botanicals in Oxford, Miss.
NPA’s Fabricant on tariff exemptions: ‘If there are things off the list, come to DC’
The Natural Products Association’s Dr. Daniel Fabricant is urging industry to engage with the association’s advocacy on Capitol Hill if there are ingredients of interest that are not currently on the tariff exemption list, a list he says that is actually...
BAPP publishes bacopa bulletin highlighting mislabeling and adulteration
The new ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP) bulletin on bacopa clarifies a nomenclatural issue for this top-selling herb.
Tariffs: UNPA’s Israelsen navigates landscape for dietary supplements industry
Dietary supplement companies are still figuring out how tariffs will affect their supply chains and business. Despite some exemptions, many ingredients have seen their tariff rates skyrocket. “The botanical industry is going to have some real...
NutraCast: The importance of diversifying supply chains amid a geopolitical crisis
The dietary supplement industry relies heavily on other regions for ingredients. With today’s ever-changing geopolitical climate, Craig Koffler, VP of sales at the Freemen Nutra Group says that diversifying the supply chain is no longer optional — it’s...
Tariffs: White House exempts key dietary ingredients like vitamins, amino acids
The White House has published a list of products exempt from both the Global Tariff and Reciprocal Tariffs, with the list including vitamins, amino acids, CoQ10, minerals and some other supplement ingredients.
Future Food-Tech San Francisco
Into the weeds: Marine Biologics’ data unlocks seaweed’s potential
Marine Biologics transforms seaweed with AI for functional, consistent food ingredients
TraceGains introduces AI-powered solution to streamline CoA processing
The Colorado-based provider of compliance, quality and innovation solutions says it is empowering brands to proactively manage ingredient supply chain quality and compliance while removing the need for manual processes.
Fish oil production ‘off to a good start’ in 2025
Fish oil total output in January 2025 was up 71% year over year, according to data provided by marine ingredients organization IFFO.
NPA’s Fabricant on the tariffs, state restrictions, NMN and FDA
Companies are being advised to have one plan to deal with disruptions from tariffs with Mexico and Canada and then a longer-term plan for China. “What’s the long-term solution?” asks the Natural Products Association’s Dr. Daniel Fabricant.
NOW Foods on B12 testing, counterfeits and trends
From navigating tariffs to generational changes, the family-owned supplement brand remains agile amid unpredictable times.
RFK, Jr. seeking to eliminate self-affirmed GRAS
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is directing the acting FDA commissioner to explore the elimination of the self-affirmed GRAS pathway for ingredients.
How TikTok trends and GLP-1s are reshaping the future of supplements
Fresh off the Sports and Active Nutrition Summit stage, GNC’s Ken Huntly unpacked the evolving health and wellness landscape in retail.
TopGum acquires Island Abbey to strengthen US gummy foothold
Israeli gummy supplement manufacturer TopGum Industries acquired Island Abbey Nutritionals, a contract developer and manufacturer specializing in gummy and lozenge supplements located in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Supplement industry responds to new US tariffs against China
President Trump enacted new tariffs against China, prompting wide concern across the supplement industry.
HTBA invests €25 million in flavonoid and Vitamin B12 production site
HealthTech BioActives (HTBA), the manufacturer of citrus flavonoids and active forms of vitamin B12, announced the completion of a €25 million investment project modernizing its research, development and manufacturing center in Murcia, Spain.
Does the future of organic hang in the ‘bromance’?
Dick Morris made a surprise after-dinner appearance at the 10th annual Organic & Natural Health Association conference last week to speak about the role he played in orchestrating the ‘bromance’ between President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
NutraCast: Canomiks on revolutionizing botanical testing and the challenges in biotech
One biotech company is leveraging genomics and AI to validate, test and certify the biological efficacy and safety of botanical ingredients.
Clean Label Project puts protein powder under the microscope, critics call the report misleading
This week the Clean Label Project released its 2024-25 Protein Powder Category Report, which included findings about contaminants in protein powders.
Guest Article
Looking back, leaping forward
Radicle Reflections on 2024: Trailblazers shaping the future of the dietary supplement industry
2025 Organic & Natural Health conference: Planet’s health and humanity’s future in focus
The Organic & Natural Health Association will host its 10th annual conference from Jan. 21 to 23 at the B Ocean Resort in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
How Valensa secures its supply chain through crop forecasting
2018 was a particularly tough year for Florida-based ingredient supplier Valensa. A fungus decimated a significant portion of its supply of saw palmetto berries, used globally as supplement ingredient.
Why Utah? How the Beehive State became the supplement capital of the U.S.
The remarkable history behind a cast of unlikely characters and a collection of fortuitous circumstances that led to Utah’s $16 billion industry.
Sami-Sabinsa Group CEO: Don't have a 'commodity mentality'
Ingredient supplier Sami-Sabinsa Group is a long-time leader in managing the supply chain and sidelining some of the pitfalls of ingredient commodification.
Dietary supplement industry considers the future of U.S.-China tariffs
The dietary supplement industry continues to closely monitor the evolution of tariff policies between China and the United States, pending the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
NutraCast: From firewalking to plant discovery, Chris Kilham takes us on a global botanical adventure
Botanical extraction company Groupe Berkem recently announced its Global Plant Exploration initiative. The effort includes sending a team to travel around the world to source plants directly. And who better to send on this exploration than the Medicine...
IFFO conference 2024: Peru's anchovy quota boost, sustainable aquaculture growth and climate resilience
Peru has announced that the second anchovy fishing season in the country’s North-Central region will commence on November 1, with a substantial quota set at 2.51 million tons.
GRMA launches Innovative Product Integrity Program
The Global Retailer and Manufacturer Alliance said it is hoping to increase confidence in product integrity within the supply chain by introducing the Innovative Product Integrity Program.
Asia’s diverse e-commerce platforms drive supplement industry growth
Finding trade routes into China and Asian Pacific countries can be challenging for nutraceutical companies, but cross-border e-commerce appears an effective way to enter these markets.
‘Burn it, don’t return it’: SupplySide adds BAPP SOP to exhibitor compliance program
SupplySide is encouraging dietary ingredient exhibitors at its trade shows to adopt the best practices established by the Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP) for the removal of “irreparably defective articles” from global commerce.