Vitamins, Diet and Sports Nutrition

SUNRISE, Fla. - Wellnext announced Wednesday the opening of a new, state-of-the-art gummy vitamin plant in its Sunrise, Fla. facility. The new Wellnext plant uses the latest technology, including non-starch molds and fully robotized equipment.

According to the company, sales of gummy vitamins grew 45% from 2012 through 2014 and now comprise 18% of new product launches.

WASHINGTON — The Puerto Rico Secretary of Health, Ana Ríus Armendáriz, announced this week that the Department of Health will not enforce Administrative Order 346, which placed regulatory fees on the distribution and manufacturing of dietary supplements that industry described as burdensome, advising she will now go through proper channels of notice, including a hearing, followed by a comment and rule making period later this year.

RONKONKOMA, N.Y. – Nature's Truth may have identified a new niche opportuntiy within aromatherapy - targeting yoga enthuisasts. The company on Thursday announced they will be partnering with Yoga Journal and New York-based yoga instructor Kat Fowler on a unification of yoga and aromatherapy with an editorial featuring Nature’s Truth to be published in the October issue of Yoga Journal.

NEW YORK — Leave it to the experts on matters of health, but on all other matters trust your spouse. That was the result of Reader's Digest second annual Trusted Brand Survey, which identified CVS Health as America's most-trusted drug store, Walmart as America's most-trusted mass merchandiser and Pharmavite's Nature Made brand as America's most-trusted nutritional supplement.

WASHINGTON – The Natural Products Association announced Wednesday it is in the later stages of developing a comprehensive safe harbor list of pre-DSHEA dietary ingredients for the industry based largely on evidence from past media reports, advertising and other public sources.  

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - Garden of Life announced Tuesday that it has obtained NSF International certification of the contents and label claims for mykind Organics, a multivitamin sold primarily through the specialty channel, including Vitamin Shoppe and Whole Foods.

ABBOTT PARK, Ill. - EAS Sports Nutrition on Tuesday launched Myoplex Ketogenic shake to appeal to fitness enthusiasts who are embracing a high-fat, ketogenic nutrition plan.

WASHINGTON — At the 27th Congressional Dietary Supplement Caucusluncheon briefing, “Counting on Your Sleep: Health and Dietary Supplements,” which took place this week, Michael Grandner, director Sleep and Health Program and assistant professor, psychiatry, medicine and psychology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, awakened an audience of more than 30 congressional staffers to the health consequences of sleep, addressing the negative outcomes from lack of sleep and the dietary supplements that can help improve sleep.