Archives for June 4, 2014

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60 seconds with Fiberstar’s new CEO John Haen

The future of functional ingredients? Collaboration, Fiberstar says

By Maggie Hennessy

Last month, longtime CPG executive John Haen took the reins as the new CEO and president of Fiberstar, replacing Dale Lindquist, who will now head up sustainable new business development at the River Falls, WI-based supplier of functional fiber...

PLT to debut whole food vitamin D mushroom powder at IFT

By Hank Schultz

PLT Health Solutions will debut a new vegetarian source of vitamin D with a whole food mushroom powder at the Institute of Food Technologists trade show later in June in New Orleans.  The new ingredient brings together several developing skeins in the...

Entry to Latin America complicated by patchwork regulatory quilt

By Hank Schultz

The regulatory picture for dietary supplements in Latin America is still very much a patchwork quilt, according to an expert who has studied the markets.  But harmonization is on the horizon, and companies that are up to speed stand to reap the benefits.