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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...
“We were so close,” says Chris Meaney, chief business officer at Green Bioactives as Scottish biotech company enters liquidation.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
Global experts convened this month to drive business investment in the sustainable cultivation and quality preservation of botanical ingredients.
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Xoted Biotechnology Labs is putting science and sustainability at the forefront by launching a new R&D facility in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
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.
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...
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.
Global fish oil production rose 34% in the first quarter of 2025 year on year, despite reduced yield from European waters.
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.
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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.
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...
The new ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP) bulletin on bacopa clarifies a nomenclatural issue for this top-selling herb.
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...
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...
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.
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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 total output in January 2025 was up 71% year over year, according to data provided by marine ingredients organization IFFO.
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.
From navigating tariffs to generational changes, the family-owned supplement brand remains agile amid unpredictable times.
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.
Fresh off the Sports and Active Nutrition Summit stage, GNC’s Ken Huntly unpacked the evolving health and wellness landscape in retail.
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.
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.
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.
One biotech company is leveraging genomics and AI to validate, test and certify the biological efficacy and safety of botanical ingredients.
This week the Clean Label Project released its 2024-25 Protein Powder Category Report, which included findings about contaminants in protein powders.
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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.
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.
The remarkable history behind a cast of unlikely characters and a collection of fortuitous circumstances that led to Utah’s $16 billion industry.
Ingredient supplier Sami-Sabinsa Group is a long-time leader in managing the supply chain and sidelining some of the pitfalls of ingredient commodification.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
SupplySide West 2024
With growing consumer demand for eco-friendly and ethically sourced supplement products, sustainability is moving beyond marketing concept to practice and will feature at the upcoming SupplySide West ingredients trade show in Las Vegas.
French manufacturer Groupe Berkem has partnered with Norwegian biotech company Arctic Bioscience to introduce a B-Romega-branded herring caviar oil extract to the North American B2B market.
On Sept. 28, Hurricane Helene barreled through North Carolina, leaving a path of destruction, days of torrential rainfall and over 100 confirmed deaths as of Oct. 3.
The 2024 report from the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED) reveals that the EPA and DHA omega-3 ingredient market is growing, even in the face of supply shortages and price hikes.