- Pharmavite meets `zero defect' mandate with
high-quality desiccant canisters.
This dietary supplement leader achieves a `pharmaceutical' standard for moisture control that assures fresh, safe and effective products. Meeting product quality standards is a challenge for any nutraceuticals manufacturer, regardless of size or sales volume. For an industry heavyweight like Pharmavite, makers of the popular Nature Made[R] brand of vitamins ......
- HERBAL MEDICINES: WHERE IS THE
EVIDENCE?
Sales of herbal medicines are soaring. In the United States, sales of herbal supplements are approaching $4 billion a year. St. John's Wort, a herbal antidepressant, sales increased 2800% in one year. Faced with such figures, physicians need to be as educated in herbal treatments as they are in prescription ......
- Dietary supplements: applying the knowledge.
(Pharmacology Update).
Dietary supplements are products other than conventional foods that are intended for ingestion as a supplement to the diet. They can contain vitamins, minerals, herbs, botanicals, amino acids, enzymes, glandulars, organ tissues, or metabolites (Food and Drug Administration [FDA], 2001). The use of dietary supplements is rapidly increasing in popularity ......
- Supplemental restraint: will the growing popularity of
nutraceuticals give rise to tighter regulations?
THE FAMILY MEDICINE CABINET IS UNDERGOING AN EXTREME MAKEOVER. Gingko Biloba, Ephedra, St. Johns Wort, Echinacea, and garlic are moving in alongside over-the-counter painkillers and cough syrups, and in many cases evicting them. Some people call them miracle cures; others simply rely on them for added nutritional value. Still others ......
- World Nutraceutical chemicals demand to grow over 6%
annually through the year 2006. (News Release).
World demand for nutraceutical chemicals will expand over 6 percent per year to $8.6 billion in 2006, supplying a $155 billion nutritional products industry. Herbal and non-herbal extracts will post the strongest gains as several compounds, including ginkgo biloba, glucosamine and saw palmetto, establish strong clinical evidence of efficacy and ......
- US demand for nutraceuticals will advance nearly ten
percent annually to $2.8 billion in 2003.
US demand for nutraceuticals will advance nearly ten percent annually to $2.8 billion in 2003. These materials will be used in a $35 billion nutraceutical products market consisting of dietary supplements, specialty nutritional products and selected foods and beverages. Growth prospects will vary among individual nutraceutical ingredients. New FDA regulations ......
- Labels monitor temperature sensitive foods.
(Materials).
Temperature indicating labels provide quick visual assurance that quality control standards have been monitored during storage and transit of temperature-sensitive food, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. Reversible and irreversible labels tell a product's current temperature at a glance, indicating if a critical temperature threshold has been violated. Reversible labels can be applied ......