Bodybuilding.com files lawsuit over JYM mark
Online retail giant Bodybuilding.com has filed a lawsuit against PhD Fitness and its principal Dr Jim Stoppani over the JYM mark used on a range of bodybuilding products.
Archives for July 7, 2016
The food supplement-pharma divide
Dutch court rules dosage can't turn a supplement into a drug
The Dutch supplements industry is celebrating a court ruling that sleep aid melatonin cannot be classed as a medicine if its dosage is above a certain threshold.
Experts dispute notion that DSHEA hamstrung FDA
Despite the tenor of a recent meeting of ex FDA commissioners, DSHEA didn’t tie the hands of federal regulators, experts contacted by NutraIngredients-USA have said.
Sports nutrition insights
How to target active high earners
Mintel research has found that high earners are key consumers of sports nutrition products in the UK, so how can manufacturers better cater to these cash-carrying competitors?
Danone+WhiteWave reaction
Frost & Sullivan: ‘More dairy companies will expand into the dairy alternative category to offset flat liquid milk sales’
More dairy companies will look to expand into the dairy alternative category to offset flat liquid milk sales and take advantage of the +15% compound annual growth rate witnessed by the plant based dairy alternative category, says consulting and market...
EU caffeine claim ban
MEP caffeine vote 'disgraceful' victory of politics over science: Industry
Industry has lamented yesterday’s European Parliament plenary vote to block four caffeine claims, which otherwise seemed set to pass into EU law books after years of delay.
Fish oil intake in pregnancy doesn't reduce childhood obesity risk
Omega-3 supplementation during pregnancy offers no protection for the offspring against obesity during the child’s first year of life, a study has hypothesised.
Biofortis and Triskelion: A French-Dutch contract research powerhouse for gut-immune health?
Development of an in vitro model that mimics the gastrointestinal tract is one of the ways in which Biofortis and Triskelion hope to help further research into the relationship between the gut microbiome and immune health, under a new partnership.
GUEST ARTICLE: Whole Foods will be sharing its sales data again. Why now? What now?
Whole Foods Market – which has not shared its sales data with syndicated data providers for a decade –is returning to cooperator status. But why now, and what does this mean, both for Whole Foods and the wider industry?