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Mar 6, 2024 | 
naturalproductsinsider.com | Josh Long |George Carrera |Jon Benninger |Hank Schultz
A recent paper that highlighted quality issues with galantamine supplements was “deeply embarrassing” for the industry, according to Peter Lurie, a medical doctor who heads up the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in the nation’s capital.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
naturalproductsinsider.com | Jon Benninger |George Carrera |Josh Long |Hank Schultz
At a Glance"Engagement matters" and Fly-In Day is "a must-attend event," NPA CEO said. NPA and its members will lobby Congress in May, coinciding with the same year DSHEA turns 30 years old. NPA members can participate in Fly-In Day at no cost, other than travel and accommodation. The Natural Products Association (NPA) announced its annual Fly-In Day in Washington, D.C., will be held May 22.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
naturalproductsinsider.com | Josh Long |George Carrera |Hank Schultz |Rachel French
The world’s biggest natural products show is CPG focused, but select ingredient suppliers behind brands still show up to impress. At a GlanceThe granddaddy of 'em all is in Anaheim March 12-16. The entire natural products industry will show up in force. Ingredient suppliers are behind every brand, and on our list.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
naturalproductsinsider.com | Josh Long |George Carrera |Hank Schultz |Rachel French
Artificial intelligence is making it easier to churn out fraudulent scientific research, some observers warn. It’s unclear whether nutrition science has been deeply compromised yet, but the threat is growing. The attention-grabbing headline in this area came in late December, when the journal Nature reported that a record-setting 10,000 papers were retracted in 2023.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
naturalproductsinsider.com | Rachel French |George Carrera |Hank Schultz |Carlos Lopez |Carlos López
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced the availability of a final guidance pertaining to procedures and timeframes for new dietary ingredient notifications (NDINs). The guidance is intended to help distributors and manufacturers prepare and submit NDINs to FDA, according to a constituent update from the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN).
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
naturalproductsinsider.com | Rachel French |George Carrera |Hank Schultz |Carlos Lopez |Carlos López
Artificial intelligence, or A.I. for short, is disrupting industries the world over. That’s because we have reached a point with information posted on the internet that computers can sift through all of this information in an infinitesimally small amount of time compared to what any group of humans could possibly accomplish, and present this information quickly. What A.I. is doing to in the supplements world is radically compressing the time between R&D and commercialization.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
naturalproductsinsider.com | Rachel French |George Carrera |Carlos Lopez |Carlos López |Todd Runestad
Supplement manufacturer NOW has tested a suite of popular creatine gummies and found that almost half of them failed to meet label claim for creatine content, and some of them showed detectable levels of a breakdown product, raising stability concerns. NOW, which is based in Bloomingdale, Ill., has tested many different sets of products over the years.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
naturalproductsinsider.com | Rachel French |George Carrera |Carlos Lopez |Carlos López |Todd Runestad
At a GlanceAmazon is a king of supplements with over $12 billion in annual sales. Its role as a gatekeeper is up for debate as Amazon doesn’t consider itself a retailer. Amazon’s complex platform presents unique challenges to industry compared to other conventional retailers.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
naturalproductsinsider.com | Carlos Lopez |Carlos López |George Carrera |Todd Runestad |Rick Polito
Famous for courting controversy, Dr. Joseph Mercola now plans to guide his followers and “billions around the world” to a “new paradigm of how to increase joy in their life” with help from the same psychic whose advice appears to have led him to fire his top executives last month. That’s according to a video and article from the doctor that was given to Natural Products Insider by a Mercola employee who said the content is planned for release in Mercola’s newsletters.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
naturalproductsinsider.com | George Carrera |Todd Runestad
Six states have outlawed kratom. FDA says it is illegal. DEA says it’s a danger. Yet Congress introduced a bill to make it legal nationally. And 15 million Americans have tried it. Should you? At a GlanceThe alkaloid mitragynine is responsible for kratom's effects. In Southeast Asia where it is traditionally used, no adverse effects. What is different about the U.S.? The kratom tree grows in backyards throughout Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
