Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. today announced that the company has reached agreements with the Attorneys General of Oregon and Vermont regarding products that may contain BMPEA.
Dr Oz giveth and he taketh away. That seems to be the recent message in the calcium space, where sales of the mineral have staggered under negative mentions by the good doctor and questions in the broader medical community about how much calcium is a...
A company that started with an effort to help an injured relative has morphed into a dietary supplement ingredient supplier offering what the founder says is the “world’s first biocompatible copper chelate.”
A new warning letter from FDA for a company manufacturing products that contained only 5% of declared nutrient levels shows that the agency is stepping up its testing of finished products, say industry experts.
Given the maturity of the market for calcium supplements and calcium-fortified foods and beverages, there is a surprising amount of innovation both in raw ingredients and finished products, say market experts.
Used in cigarette filters, as a corrosive, pigment and in the manufacture of rubber and concrete, zinc forms like zinc oxide and zinc suphate are also important nutrients for physiological wellbeing. And 18 new European Union health claims – the most...
US sales of calcium and calcium formula supplements slumped 3.5% in the past year against a backdrop of 8.1% growth in the overall dietary supplements market over the same period.
Illinois-based VDF FutureCeuticals has achieved self-affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) status for its elemin Senonian Trace Minerals for use in food and beverages.
Consuming multivitamins, and iron and copper dietary supplements may increase the risk of death in older women, says a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
A new selenium-enriched garlic product from Sabinsa is now available for inclusion in dietary supplement formulations in the United States after the Food and Drug Administration filed New Dietary Ingredient notification for the company’s latest offering.
Condition-specific products make up almost one-third of all US nutritional supplement sales, led by joint health and calcium, according to a new market report.
Plant-derived calcium forms can help ignite a dormant market, according to a start-up that has been marketing an algae-derived form of the bone health ingredient for about two years.
A natural, multi-mineral ingredient derived from the red seaweed
Lithothamnion Corallioides may improve osteoarthritis
symptoms by about 15 per cent, say the results of a new pilot
study.
Mineral Resources International (MRI) has received GRAS status for
its mineral ingredients, opening up the products to the US
functional food and beverage market.
The American Herbal Products Association is backing two bills
introduced to Congress to expand the use of food stamps to include
nutritional supplements, as well to provide tax breaks for some
products.
The UK has made public its response to the EC discussion document
on vitamin and mineral levels, in which it adheres strongly to the
approach of its Export Group on Vitamins and Minerals (EMV) and
recommends it be applied to the EU...
The board of the UK's Food Standards Agency yesterday agreed the
draft response to the EC discussion document on vitamin and mineral
levels with only minor changes, paving the way to approval of the
final response by government...
The directors of the consumer group, Consumers For Health Choice
(CHC), have released their final version of the comments submitted
to the European Commission regarding the Maximum and Minimum
Permitted Levels for Vitamins and Minerals...
Consumers must be able to make an informed choice about the
vitamins and minerals they consume in supplements and functional
foods, FSA stakeholders stressed at the first of two meetings to
help the agency formulate a response to...
Vulnerable as they are to media reports, the key to successful
mineral products is in strong R&D and marketing expertise to
take them through from concept to consumer, says Frost &
Sullivan.
Two new companies in the supplements market, one each on either
side of the channel, are looking to launch an organic selenium
yeast in Europe after gaining derogation from the supplements
directive.
Vanadium, a trace mineral taken in supplements by bodybuilders and
for sugar control, may promote faster recovery from food poisoning
or other infections, suggests new research on animals.
Israeli microencapsulation firm Biodar has developed a new
technology that resolves the taste issue for companies making
mineral supplements and fortified foods, writes Dominique
Patton.
China's massive drive to reduce the damage done by vitamin and
mineral deficiency, particularly to children, is paying rich
dividends for its economy, say children's charity UNICEF and the
Chinese Ministry of Health.
Leiner Health Products, a leading manufacturer of store brand
vitamins, minerals, and nutritional supplements, has seen a solid
financial performance in the first quarter of fiscal 2005 as its
new capital structure came into play.
The majority of US citizens are still not sure which dietary
supplements they should be taking, according to a national survey
released today by San Diego based Life Force International (LFI), a
manufacturer of liquid whole food natural...
A lack of basic vitamins and minerals is damaging the health of
one-third of the world's people and holding back the economic
development of virtually every country in the southern hemisphere,
claims a new report presented to...
The leading US eye health supplement, made by Bausch & Lomb,
gained a US patent this week, prompting the company to launch suits
against four of its competitors.
The Council for Responsible Nutrition Annual Conference on Dietary
Supplements, taking place in September, aims to focus on future
challenges concerning the industry.
Supplement industry trade association the Council for Responsible
Nutrition has urged the Food and Drug Administration and the
Federal Trade Commission to take action against "outrageous
marketing claims" for the dietary...
Insufficient intake of minerals iron, zinc and calcium in the diet
can lead to unhealthy increases in cadmium uptake in the kidney and
liver, according to scientists from the USDA's Agricultural
Research Service.
News that nutritional supplements such as vitamin E may be able to
stop prostate cancer before it starts has been praised as
"tremendously significant" by scientists, according to Foods
for the Future.
Nutritional supplements producer Nutrition 21 said it remained
bullish about its prospects for achieving full-year profits despite
tough trading conditions and a disappointing second quarter.
