New UK supplier enters ingredients game with health claim answers
LPC Group is driving its ingredients business toward food supplements and functional foods in a move designed to leverage its “heritage” in the personal care and pharma sectors.
Archives for July 15, 2012
DMAA in the dock
Australian medicines agency adds DMAA to poisons list
Australia’s medicines regulator – the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) - has added DMAA to its Schedule 9 list of prohibited substances and poisons that includes cannabis, salvia divinorum, GHB, heroin, psilocybin and LSD.
Probiotic sales defeat EFSA's blow
Consumer demand is sustaining probiotics sales, despite the blow of the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA's) health claims rejections, say some of industry's main players.
USPLabs promises new data that ‘definitively’ proves presence of DMAA in geranium
USPLabs has challenged the findings of new research on the source of DMAA and alerted the trade to the imminent publication of data it claims “definitively demonstrates” that the much-maligned stimulant is naturally present in the geranium plant.