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As SupplySide MarketPlace hits full speed today with the opening of the show floor, I'd encourage exhibitors and attendees to use this space to discuss what they have been finding that is particularly [...]
Date Posted : 05/09/2012  0 Comments

Thanks to increased awareness in “natural,” botanicals will drive increased consumer demand for cosmeceuticals through 2015, according to a new report from the Freedonia Group. U.S. demand [...]
Date Posted : 05/08/2012  0 Comments

This month we’ve talked a lot about sustainable packaging and how far we’ve come in the 40+ years since we first celebrated Earth Day. In digging through the notebook, I come back to [...]
Date Posted : 05/01/2012  0 Comments

Organic Monitor's Judi Beerling was quoted as saying that the definition of natural is open to interpretation by everyone. However if you add a certification like organic to your cosmetic product [...]
Date Posted : 04/30/2012  0 Comments

Animal testing has significantly increased due to research into herbs, food additives, sweeteners and dietary supplements. This increase is not due to safety issues; rather it is about marketing, competition [...]
Date Posted : 04/26/2012  0 Comments

The SIDI Work Group--which consists of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), and the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA)--today [...]
Date Posted : 04/17/2012  0 Comments

The Natural Products Association (NPA) is the leading representative of the dietary supplement industry with over 1,900 members, including suppliers and retailers of vitamins and other dietary supplements. [...]
Date Posted : 03/19/2012  0 Comments

In case you haven't heard, a recent move in California to add 4-methylimidazole, present in some caramel colors, to the list of substances in Prop. 65 that require disclosure via a warning [...]
Date Posted : 03/12/2012  0 Comments

Qnexa, the weight loss prescription drug from Vivus, Inc., that we discussed here last week made it past round one yesterday. FDA's advisory board voted 20-2 that the drug's benefits outweighed [...]
Date Posted : 02/23/2012  0 Comments

My fine editor, Doug Peckenpaugh, brought this New York Times story to my attention. Apparently, FDA will recommend this week whether the agency should approve Qnexa, a diet prescription pill [...]
Date Posted : 02/17/2012  0 Comments

The Coca-Cola Company just posted a press release on recent growth, up just a bit, either on target with sales goals or exceeding them—which is saying a lot considering the current global economic [...]
Date Posted : 02/07/2012  0 Comments

For some time now, industry analysts (myself included) have been speculating how PepsiCo will continue its push to be seen as a company that can have direct associations with healthy brands and lines. [...]
Date Posted : 01/30/2012  0 Comments

I'm not a regular follower of what goes on during daytime TV--that's what "The Soup" is for--but I couldn't ignore the recaps of yesterday's "Dr. Oz" [...]
Date Posted : 01/19/2012  0 Comments

This morning I ran across a Grist interview with Bruce Bradley, a former marketing executive for General Mills, Pillsbury and Nabisco. If you haven't seen his blog yet, check it out. It's [...]
Date Posted : 11/04/2011  0 Comments

  Understandably, passions have been running high on the issue of how to respond to FDA's NDI Draft NDI Guidance--an issue that affects the health of the American people and the [...]
Last Posted : 10/20/2011  2 Comments

A colleague recently sent over an op-ed from The New York Times on whether or not "junk" food is cheaper than more-healthful food. This is a classic cliche these days, that the food industry [...]
Last Posted : 09/29/2011  1 Comments

OK. I'm not a girl. And nobody would ever call me skinny. And to tell the truth, I had no idea who Bethenny Frankel was until today. But I *have* had her Skinnygirl Margarita before, simply because [...]
Last Posted : 09/21/2011  1 Comments

Potatoes often get a bad rap, mainly because people love fries and chips so much. So I was intrigued to see a report today on how plain potatoes (the study used purple ones) can help overweight or [...]
Last Posted : 09/07/2011  1 Comments

Everyone is making tough choices in the U. S. these days. From families all over the country deciding how to pay for health care and college education, all the way to the government deciding whether [...]
Last Posted : 08/04/2011  6 Comments

These items would not be on the menu if we didn't demand them.  With items such as Pizza Hut triple meat pizza, the Triple Whopper with cheese, and some items you'd never guess were as [...]
Last Posted : 06/28/2011  12 Comments

Food safety obviously remains a massive issue in the United States and around the globe. While FDA figures out how to implement FSMA and addresses concerns with tomatoes and GMP violations, other countries [...]
Last Posted : 06/07/2011  2 Comments

In the healthy ingredients industry, you’re going to run across a higher percentage of people who want to do away from parabens; however, I still see most of the best selling personal care products [...]
Last Posted : 06/24/2011  14 Comments

Many Americans from middle class working families to celebrities, including First Lady Michelle Obama  has encouraged and started to pay closer attention the fact that we a should make a more [...]
Last Posted : 05/14/2012  9 Comments

Let's say that a company purchases an ingredient, and after analysis finds that the ingredient has been adulterated. Does the adulterated ingredient get sent back to the supplier? If so, what happens [...]
Last Posted : 07/08/2011  1 Comments

I attended a seminar at SupplySide East last week.  Bradford Williams was the speaker, and he was addressing topics related to FDA GMP inspection updates. One question that came up was [...]
Last Posted : 05/12/2011  1 Comments

Today I'm off to NAI West ( the new version of DCAT West) and the session description below looks very interesting.  The SupplySide Community will enable you - the members and audience [...]
Last Posted : 05/12/2011  1 Comments

As I meet attendees and exhibitors at this year's SupplySide East show and mention the launch of SupplySide Community, I am not surprised to hear what many have been saying for years - "Our [...]
Last Posted : 05/11/2011  1 Comments

Curious to hear thoughts from the community on what the 'must see' aspects of SupplySide East are this week in NJ...
Last Posted : 04/30/2011  2 Comments