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Vitamin Packs adds pre- and post-natal, multivitamin supplement to subscription service
Supplement subscription company Vitamin Packs adds a daily multivitamin and Pre-Post Natal multivitamin to its array of options.
Archives for January 15, 2018
Alcyon Health co-founder: ‘We want to be mass, we want to have national distribution’
Start-up Alcyon Health wants to fill gap in reproductive health space
With stark branding design and claims printed boldly on its minimalist packages, co-founder of Ohio-based startup Alcyon Health believes his company is filling in a gap in the reproductive health supplement category.
BI says steam sterilization gives it a leg up on FSMA supply chain rule
With 15 years of data, BI Nutraceuticals says its steam sterilization protocol is the most highly developed in the dietary supplement industry, and is part of what enables the company to fully comply with FSMA requirements.
NSF's Miller says 'honest and open discussion' will help define best practices for DNA testing
New leadership at NSF's AuthenTechnologies unit will 'more closely align' it with the organization's 'core scientific testing and research services', and will help to better define where DNA testing is best used, the division's new chief said.
Knowing when and who to ask for help allowed Phyter Foods to quickly expand nationally
Most food and beverage startups dream of expanding from a local brand serving only a handful of stores to one that is nationally distributed to hundreds or thousands of retailers, but the logistics of getting there can be a nightmare if not carefully...
PEEK INSIDE: IPAWC + PROBIOTA 2018, BARCELONA 7-9 FEBRUARY
Depression: A new role for probiotics in nutritional psychiatry?
The possibility that probiotics could be a new tool in fighting depression is gaining increasing attention in nutritional psychiatry, says Caroline Wallace ahead of her talk at the IPA World Congress + Probiota 2018 next month.