Heather Granato, Vice President of Content at Informa, recently joined ingredientsonline.com for the Technology & Transparency U.S. to China tour where a group of U.S. delegates toured five factories to bring awareness to quality ingredients from around the world.

ingredientsonline.com recently sent our QA auditor, Kevin Chen, to audit three of our factory partners: Shandong Jinpharm, Jingjing Pharmaceutical and Suqian Modern Biology Technology. Kevin performed a full facility inspection, which included the production rooms, warehouse, laboratories and other areas of interest.

As a main source of plant protein, soybean has been widely accepted and used globally for hundreds of years. Soy peptide is one of the by-products during the industrial processing cycle of soybean products manufacturing. The product is known for its active functions in physical fatigue reduction, skin maintenance, weight loss, brain health...

Join Peggy Jackson, VP of Sales & Marketing, as she recaps Q2 which included the ingredientsonline.com U.S. to China Tour, the new ingredientsonline.com Magazine and much more!

Today’s healthy lifestyle consumer is strange, but not in a bad way. They’re conflicted. They want something but they are not sure what it is, where it will come from or what it even looks like. That something is personalized nutrition and there is a virtual race taking place to be the first company/brand to 1) get there and 2) get it right.

Looking towards summer 2018, the trade war launched by President Trump against China ranks as the top potential factor which will influence the future supply of ingredients. Once product list and timeline are confirmed, and the new tariffs* are charged upon the imported products from China, the prices will change dramatically in the ingredient industry because most of the key dietary supplements come from China...

At VitaFoods Europe 2018, Peggy Jackson, VP of Sales & Marketing for ingredientsonline.com, was asked to participate in the inaugural meeting of the “Transparency Working Group.” Led by Jade Sterling of Informa Exhibitions, the working group contributed their view for "Transparency: what it is and why we need it." 

Supplement and nutritional manufacturing is a rapidly growing industry with U.S. sales topping $36 billion in 2017. But more products mean more recalls. In fact, 60 percent of FDA annual recalls of supplement products stem from labeling issues.