CRN adds four companies to membership roster
WASHINGTON — The Council for Responsible Nutrition on Monday announced the addition of four new member companies to its membership roster, including voting members Piping Rock Health Products and Post Holdings and associate members Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz and Midi Labs.
“As the dietary supplement industry continues to grow, we’re pleased that companies such as our newest members continue to show interest in being part of the industry’s leading trade association,” stated Steve Mister, president and CEO, CRN. “We look forward to collaborating with these companies and to benefitting from their expertise and knowledge, as we solidify the industry’s direction toward greater accountability to consumers.”
“We are proud to join this team of key players in the dietary supplement industry,” stated Scott Rudolph, CEO at Piping Rock Health Products, in a separate release. “The CRN has set the standards for quality, safety, and efficacy in its commitment to the consumer — something Piping Rock has always stood for. In fact, I was instrumental in helping craft the vision for the CRN many years ago when the organization was in its infancy stages of development and creating its vision for the future."
Piping Rock Health Products is a wellness company and manufacturer and distributor of dietary supplements, aromatherapy and health products. Family owned, the company boasts three generations and more than forty years of expertise in the nutrition industry. Piping Rock’s wholesale divisions include popular products such as Nature’s Truth, Sundance Vitamins and Princeton Research Health brands.
Post Holdings is a consumer packaged goods holding company operating in the center-of-the-store, foodservice, food ingredient, private label, refrigerated and active nutrition food categories. Post's active nutrition businesses market and distribute protein beverages, bars, powders, nutritional supplements and gels sold primarily under the PowerBar, Premier Protein and Dymatize brands.
Baker Donelson is a full service law firm whose attorneys regularly practice in the most dynamic areas of FDA. The firm takes a creative approach, encouraging innovative solutions, all based on in-depth knowledge of the issues, entities and rules and with a pragmatic, realistic application of that knowledge. Baker Donelson gives clients access to a team of more than 650 attorneys and public policy advisors, all seamlessly connected across 20 offices throughout the Southeast and Washington, D.C.
And Midi Labs is an FDA-registered, cGMP-compliant veteran-owned small business providing contract laboratory services and technologies for food and supplement manufacturers, personal care, pharmaceutical, agri-bio and research industries, including analysis for quality control and label requirements.