Natural Products Industry

ODIs, kratom, CBD, SSCI and more: NPA reviews ‘exciting’ 2017

19-Dec-2017 By Daniel Fabricant, PhD, CEO & President, Natural Products Association

This year wasn’t a time to take in a play or go about things leisurely, outside of the beltway there may appear to be gridlock due to congress but a new Administration set the tone early in 2017, putting forth some great opportunities for the natural...

NPA announces award winners of 24th Annual Awards

08-Jun-2017

Senator Orrin Hatch, Roxanne Green, the Haddow brothers, and Nutrition 21’s Nitrosigine ingredient are this year’s winners of the Annual NPA Awards.

NPA outlines top supplement-related legislative issues for PEOTUS Trump

11-Jan-2017 By Stephen Daniells

NDIs, kratom, maternal and child nutrition, medical foods, health claims, and reducing the cost of healthcare are among the important issues affecting dietary supplements and the natural products industry in 2017, according to the Natural Products Association....

MegaFood’s ZingMojo summit explores the central role of natural retailers for health & wellness in their community

02-Sep-2016 By Stephen Daniells

Natural retailers face many challenges, but demographic and technology changes are also creating opportunities, many of which were explored at a recent summit hosted by MegaFood.

The Retail Landscape: Challenges in 2015

23-Apr-2015 By Daniel Fabricant, PhD, Executive Director and CEO, Natural Products Association

The digital marketplace, participating in advocacy efforts, and why membership of a trade association is important: In this guest article, Daniel Fabricant, PhD, Executive Director and CEO, Natural Products Association gives his views on the retail landscape...

NPA: 2015 will bring challenges in Congress, media and GMP compliance

09-Jan-2015 By Daniel Fabricant, Ph.D., CEO and Executive Director of the Natural Products Association

As with any new year, January is a time for looking ahead and getting in front of obstacles before they arise. Many mistakenly believe that a new year means new, unexpected challenges, but reality the year’s tests and trials – both internal and external...

NPA seeks input on message to countervail negative media reports on supplements

06-Feb-2014 By Hank Schultz

Recent negative reports about the safety and efficacy of dietary supplements aren’t just a black eye on the industry.  They represent a groundswell of public sentiment that could lead to the significant alteration of the Dietary Supplement Health and...

Special edition: Outsourcing

GMPs boosting need for contract analytical prowess

24-Jan-2011 By Stephen Daniells

The introduction of good manufacturing practices (GMPs) is a boon for contract analytical services, and those with special services to offer are standing out from the crowd.

Dispatches from SupplySide West

‘Medicine hunter’ spears mainstream botanical acceptance

10-Nov-2010 By Shane Starling

For the best part of two decades Chris Kilham has been venturing into this planet’s wild vegetation zones in an ongoing search for botanicals that may have therapeutic, nutritional or wellness benefits.

Hot Topic

Industry after Smiling Bob: Your views

26-Sep-2008

At the end of last month, the founder of US supplements firm Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals received the most severe punishment yet to be handed out for fraud in the industry: A 25-year jail sentence and $93,000 from his personal savings. The company...

Supply Side East gathers industry

05-May-2003

New GMP regulations, crisis over ephedra and recent media reports
slamming use of vitamins and herbals, have all shaken the industry,
not to mention the difficult economy, and a major supplement recall
in Australia last week. Which...