Arboris enters US market with flagship plant sterol ester
Georgia-based Arboris, LLC has launched its pine-derived plant sterol ester ingredient Protanica into North American markets.
Archives for March 10, 2014
Dispatches from the NCA State of the Industry Conference in Miami
US cocoa flavanol health claim nears but ‘not quite there yet’
More clinical trials are needed for a US health claim on cocoa flavanols, according to the National Confectioners’ Association’s technical director.
Time has come to consider DRIs for bioactives, CRN official says
Evidence for the nutrtional benefits of bioactives is steadily accumulating, and the time has come engage regulators in a process of determining dietary reference intakes (DRIs) for the best-researched substances, said Jim Griffiths, vice president of...
Supplement leaders can help foster combined US-Mexico prosperity, Fox says
Thought leaders in the natural products field form an academy, similar in concept to those formed in ancient Greece that gave rise to the term. And that academy can help foster the common prosperity of the US and Mexico, said Vicente Fox, former...
Vitamin D linked to better breast cancer patient survival
Breast cancer patients with high levels of vitamin D in their blood are twice as likely to survive the disease as those with lower levels, new research has suggested.
Vitamin D may boost heart’s ability to respond to a stressor
Daily supplements of vitamin D may improve the heart’s response to a stressor, says a new study from Canada with implications for healthy people and those at high risk of cardiovascular mortality.