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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lush, an international cosmetics company, is taking its sustainability efforts to the cloud--a virtual storage environement. Lush has partnered with cloud data management firm CloudApps to [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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" [...]

A short while ago, a colleague passed along a link to a story from The New York Times entitled "Should We All Go Gluten-Free?" The title says it all. An interesting look at the gluten-free [...]

On Nov. 27, 60 Minutes aired a segment it dubbed "The Flavorists," which prominently featured interviews with flavorists and others from Givaudan, one of the world's largest flavor and [...]

The Natural Products Association (NPA) has submitted extensive comments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to the agency’s draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI). “In [...]

By the nature of my career, friends often feel inclined to voice their gripes, concerns or questions when it comes to anything and everything edible. One perennial subject is juice. Every so often, [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]