Mapping The Nutraceuticals World

With rising interest in healthy aging, more people are looking for clinical research that supports products designed to help them live healthier for longer. The coenzyme NAD+ is essential to the body's metabolic processes, but it declines with age, so supplements that boost NAD+ have garnered considerable attention in the scientific community. ChromaDex, which is publicly trad

Loren Israelsen from the United Natural Products Alliance shares insight on how agency priorities might change and how businesses can prepare. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is in process of a massive reorganization designed to streamline operations within a unified Human Foods Program (HFP) to largely replace the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN).What doe

One of the biggest challenges for dietary supplements has been proving that products actually work. The traditional model for clinical research is expensive, slow, and not representative of diverse populations. As its name suggests, the company Radicle Science aims to address those concerns with a much different approach, leveraging new tools and technology. For this podcast we t

Born as a DTC multivitamin brand with strong focus on transparency, Ritual entered retail stores for the first time in 2022 with Whole Foods, and expanded in 2023 with Target and Amazon. Now an omnichannel brand and a Certified B Corp, Ritual has expanded its menu of products to include a Synbiotic for gut health, as well as a Skin Hydration supplement called HyaCera. The company j

Women In Nutraceuticals (WIN) is a nonprofit group established in 2022 with a mission to “empower women to unlock their personal and professional potential,” ultimately looking to “achieve economic and societal equity to change the global industry.” WIN recently conducted an industry Leadership Survey to get a global benchmark of where the industry is today in terms of gen

Mushrooms seem to be everywhere, and in everything. Reishi, Shitake, Cordyceps, Lion’s Mane, Turkey Tail, Chaga, and others are all finding their way into dietary supplements and other nutritional products.The closer you look at the Kingdom of Fungi, which is separate from plants, the more fascinating it seems to become.To better understand the complexities of medicinal mushrooms

There are all sorts of legal and regulatory issues affecting the dietary supplements market today. FDA restructuring, drug preclusion, facility inspections, FTC’s new Health Products Compliance Guidance, and updated Green Guides for environmental claims are just a few. Top legal and regulatory experts will be tackling these issues and more at the 11th Legal, Regulatory & Com

This November marks 25 years since the debut issue of Nutraceuticals World (NW), which launched 4 years after passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA).NW Founding Editor Ellen Schutt—now the managing director of the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED)—reflects on advancement of the nutraceutical market and remembers fellow colleagues Ro

Caitlyn Vanderhaeghe is the President and CEO of KidStar Nutrients, based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, which aims to deliver the highest quality nutritional supplements for kids. She co-founded KidStar Nutrients after one of her daughters was diagnosed with iron deficiency, and she wasn’t satisfied with what was available on the market. “I went on a hunt for great quality products

Dietary supplement issues discussed include:The drug exclusion rule in DSHEA and the impact on CBD, NAC, NMN, and other ingredients; FDA restructuring of the Human Foods Program and industry’s relationship with its regulators; FDA’s “Dietary Supplement Ingredient Directory”;CBD and potential for a regulatory fix through the Farm Bill, or other legislative packages;FTC notic