Register now to watch the NutraIngredients Awards ceremony today!
By Will Chu
The NutraIngredients Awards will be broadcast live today (4 May) at 16:00 CET with a virtual ceremony that will reveal this year's winners.
From the Editor: Exciting changes at NutraIngredients
By Nikki Hancocks
Many readers will have noticed some changes to how they access the award-winning content on our site, so here's more information about the how and why of those modifications.
Thousands sign petition demanding Holland & Barrett store closures
By Nikki Hancocks
Holland & Barrett staff have set up a petition, signed by thousands of staff and customers, begging the company to close its stores during the coronavirus pandemic as they argue their lives and the lives of customers are being put at risk.
NUTRAINGREDIENTS AWARDS 2020
NutraIngredients Awards class of 2018: 'Prize was a validation of our technologies'
By Will Chu
In May, the NutraIngredients Awards once again hosts the best of industry, recognising innovation leadership and business excellence across Europe.
Anonymously voice your opinions … and you could win an iPad!
NutraIngredients sports nutrition market survey: Three days left to have your say
By Robert Rose
While the sports nutrition market appears to be booming, it is important to keep reality in check. In our first ever sports nutrition survey we ask how market forces, regulations, and innovation are impacting the market. There's just three days left...
ESSNA: Education key to exposing sports nutrition "charlatans"
By Will Chu
There is no place in the legitimate sports nutrition world for banned substances like methylhexanamine (DMAA), sold by companies who prey on the public's perceived lack of knowledge.
VITAFOODS 2017 PREVIEW
Sports Nutrition is all about balancing innovation and risk, says NSF
By Emma Jane Cash
Adulteration in the sports nutrition industry remains a global issue, says John Travis of NSF International ahead of his talk on adulteration and innovation in sports nutrition at Vitafoods.
Your Voice Matters
Have your say today: NutraIngredients state of the industry survey
By Nathan Gray
Which consumer trends will be important for your business? Are European markets too fragmented? What is in store for your category? How are EU rules affecting your prospects? To gauge our readers' views on these – and many more questions - NutraIngredients...
Serious risks? Report highlights 'hidden ingredients' in herbal supplements
By Nathan Gray
Both regulators, and the industry itself, should be doing more to test and improve quality control of herbal supplements, says a report highlighting the issue of 'hidden' drugs in certain supplements.
ESSNA: 'It is the sad reality that DMAA is widely available'
DMAA sighted in Denmark
By Emma Jane Cash
Long withdrawn DMAA-containing pre-workout supplement Jack3d has been targeted by the Danish Food Administration (DFA) after it was alerted to internet and Facebook sales.
LGC seals third deal in a month with BRC Global Standards acquisition
By Joseph James Whitworth
Private equity backed LGC has splashed the cash for the third time in a month to acquire BRC Global Standards.
Sweden to create special supplement e-commerce task force
By Annie Harrison-Dunn
Sweden is creating a taskforce to bring rogue supplement e-commerce in check, something industry hopes will help close the gap between on and offline standards.
Supplement shaming wins first Olympic gold medal
By Shane STARLING
It didn't take long for a dope-busted Olympic athlete to blame a contaminated food supplement for his infringement and sportsmen and sports bodies to jump into the fray with 'see? you just can't trust supplements' missives.
The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) has seized 12.2 million products as part of its 103-country Operation Pangea IX to crack down on the black health market.
NSF brings its DNA supplement testing services to Europe: 'We want to assist EU regulators'
By Lynda Searby
European authorities and food supplement companies now have access to next generation DNA test methods that can establish whether supplements actually contain the botanical ingredients declared on the label, as NSF International rolls out its supplement...
Youngsters exposed to 'significant misinformation' on sports nutrition: Irish authority
By Annie Harrison-Dunn
Young people are exposed to a significant amount of misinformation on sports nutrition, which could have negative implications for their health now and in the future, according to a Food Safety Authority of Ireland's (FSAI) chief.
Which supplements were blocked at the EU borders this month?
By Annie Harrison-Dunn
This month on the EU's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) we saw evidence that the notorious banned substance DMAA is still in circulation, authorities are keeping an eyes on raspberry ketones and asthma drug ephedrine is being smuggled into...
MHRA: "An un-level playing ground is caused by the players, not by the referee."
UK supplements market feeling pain of illegal imports. Calls go out for stricter policing
By Shane STARLING
UK food supplements firms say their businesses are being threatened by imports containing banned ingredients like GABA – and that regulators need to do more to police the market and protect those that play by the rules.
FSA budget cuts: what it means for food safety
By Michelle Perrett
Budget cuts at the Food Standards Agency and local authorities mean change is afoot, reports Michelle Perrett.
Is aegeline still at large in the EU?
By Annie Harrison-Dunn
Two shipments of aegeline were blocked last month at the EU borders – begging the questions, is this illicit substance still at large and if so what should be done to stop it?
FDA 'following up' on availability of DMAA products online
By Stephen DANIELLS
The US Food and Drug Administration is following up on recent findings that almost 40 products are still using DMAA, so are more warning letters expected?
How transparent is the EU when it comes to supplement scares?
By Annie Harrison-Dunn
Europe has various measures in place to report risky supplements – but it's questionable if these warnings ever make it outside the closed circuit of national authorities. This lack of complete information is to the detriment of both consumer safety and...
Fat-burning supplement death is tragic but don't blame the supplement industry, says supplemements industry
By Shane STARLING
The death of a 45-year-old British man who overdosed on 'T5' fat burning food supplements is tragic but not indicative of an under-regulated supplements industry, say trade groups.
BMPEA found in Jacked Power linked to woman's stroke
By Annie Harrison-Dunn
Tests of the 'Jacked Power' pre-workout supplement thought to be the cause of a Swedish woman's brain haemorrhage have revealed 290 mg of unlabelled BMPEA.
WADA exec: Bad actors in supplement sphere getting worse and only premarket approval will weed them out
By Hank Schultz
Critics of the dietary supplement industry who were invited to speak at the scientific conference held this week at the University of Mississippi were pulling no punches. Olivier Rabin, PhD, of the World Anti Doping Agency, renewed a call for more stringent...
US web retailer pumps EU distribution as gym community swells
By Annie Harrison-Dunn
US site Bodybuilding.com has opened its first UK distribution centre to better cater to its customer base in Europe - part of a community that includes 25 million unique visitors to its websites each month.
Sports supplements hit for six in BBC contamination investigation
By Shane STARLING
Banned steroids and stimulants have been found in muscle building and fat burning sports supplements in the UK, a BBC documentary broadcast this week has found.
Border block: Germany stops product with debated aegeline ingredient
By Annie Harrison-Dunn
The German authorities have blocked a shipment of products containing the unauthorised novel food ingredient aegeline and American firm USP Labs is making inquiries into whether this relates to its recalled OxyElite product.
Supplement industry has changed and now our advice reflects that: Sweden
By Annie Harrison-Dunn
The Swedish National Food Agency (SLV) has released its first manual on best food supplement practice – something it says responds to the increasingly complex nature of the growing sector.
DMAA doping or contamination?
Food supplements fingered as German doping ban reduced
By Shane STARLING
A German Winter Olympian has had her doping ban reduced from two years to six months, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), agreed the DMAA in her system had likely come from a contaminated food supplement.
German border busts reveal banned DMAA still out there (but detection is improving)
By Lynda Searby
Scientists at a German state control laboratory have developed a fast and accurate method of testing whether supplement and sports nutrition products contain the illegal stimulant DMAA (1,3-dimethylamylamine/methylhexaneamine).
Dispatches from Vitafoods Europe 2014
Safe sports nutrition product use is a reality. So are global sports federation rebuttals increasingly 'outdated'?
By Shane STARLING
Contamination concerns mean most athletic and sporting federations advise against them despite near-ubiquitous use among top athletes and sportspeople. Busted doped athletes continue to finger them. But sports nutrition products are in a better place...
Special edition: Sports nutrition
Offside! ESSNA blows whistle on athletes' doping excuses
By Shane STARLING
Europe's sports nutrition sector today launched a stinging attack on elite athletes who blame doping infringements on contaminated sports supplements as happened multiple times at the recent Winter Olympiad in Sochi, Russia.
European sports nutrition group raises red flags for London marathoners
By Shane Starling
The 40,000 professional and amateur runners that will spill through the streets of London this weekend for the London marathon can benefit from sports supplement use but should be wary of dangerous products, the biggest European sports nutrition group...
UK testing firm lifts game in sports nutrition doping war
By Shane Starling
LGC-owned HFL Sport Science is raising awareness in the battle to flush out contaminated sports nutrition products and reduce the likelihood of their being blamed for doping infringements.
Online retailers can help stop doping and questionable supplements: Consultant
By Luca Bucchini, PhD
If the nutritional supplements sector is to ever cast off its reputation for 'dangerous' and unlabelled contaminants then big online retails must embrace and enforce stricter anti-doping policies, argues Luca Bucchini, PhD.
For 12 days the 22nd Winter Olympiad in Sochi, Russia, had escaped the scourge of doping. It may not have escaped the scourge of homophobic ranting from its paragon-of-progress president, Vladimir Putin, but it had been drug-free.
Supplements certifier teams with retailer to boost sports nutrition safety
By Shane Starling
UK-based food supplement certification service Informed-Sport has linked up with online supplement retailer Trusted Pro Supplements to showcase those products that have passed through the stringent quality control process.
More woe for OxyElite Pro as Euro ban widens
By Shane STARLING
Italy, Portugal and Ireland have joined a growing list of nations to ban pre-workout supplement, OxyElite Pro.
Dispatches from SupplySide West 2013
We don't see the pre-workout sector going in the right direction post-DMAA: Chromadex CEO
By Stephen Daniells
New 'suspect alkaloids' are finding their way into the controversial pre-workout supplement sector, and potentially dangerous products will continue to flourish in the marketplace while there is wider support from the industry, according to the CEO of...
Incoherent and uncoordinated EU regulators should worry policy makers and industry
By Luca Bucchini, PhD
The stop-and-go, uncoordinated approach of EU-level and national regulators to bans on nutritional supplements including DMAA, dexaprine and synephrine, should be a cause for concern among policy makers and industry alike, warns Luca Bucchini, PhD.
One more time: US Army/ NSF analysis shows DMAA not in geranium
By Stephen DANIELLS
A new analysis from US Army scientists and NSF International finds, yet again, that controversial compound DMAA (1,3 dimethylamylamine) is not found in geranium. The analysis supports FDA conclusions that the evidence is 'insufficient' to support the...
UPDATE: Swedish agency detects (legal) amphetamine-like compounds in sports supplements; not in 'authentic' Craze, says manufacturer
By Shane STARLING
A Swedish lab has found amphetamine-like compounds in sports supplements containing a herbal extract that has been touted as a replacement for widely banned stimulant, DMAA. But the lab said the compounds were not illegal, while the product maker has...
European sports nutrition sector 'angry' at quality criticism after DMAA marathon death
By Shane Starling
The European sports supplements sector is not under-regulated the industry has said in an angry reaction to calls for greater controls after the death of a woman running the London marathon last year was linked to the now-vilified and mostly banned stimulant,...
DMAA in the dock
DMAA blamed for London marathon death
By Shane STARLING
A single dose of the banned stimulant DMAA was the most probable cause of the heart attack that killed Claire Squires in hospital after she collapsed during the final metres of the 2012 London marathon.
USPLabs sets aside $2m to settle DMAA class action cases
By Elaine WATSON
After a tidal wave of lawsuits and months of heated debate about the regulatory status of the stimulant DMAA (1,3-Dimethylamylamine), USPLabs has agreed to settle a nationwide class action suit challenging the legality and safety of its top-selling DMAA...
DMAA: Only found in select geranium, says new USPLabs-funded study
By Stephen Daniells
Controversial ingredient DMAA has been detected in geranium from select regions of China, but not all, according to a new study from the University of Memphis and funded by USPLabs.
DMAA not in geranium, says yet another study
By Stephen Daniells
Guess what? DMAA is not found in extracts from four different species of geranium and three cultivars, and the ingredient in a leading dietary supplement is probably synthetic, says a new analysis from Italian researchers.
Spain and the Netherlands warn against DMAA
By Shane Starling
Spanish and Dutch authorities have added to the growing list of countries issuing warnings against the pre-workout and weight loss stimulant, DMAA (dimethylamylimine/ methylhexanamine).
UK wins Jack3D appeal and bans DMAA
By Shane Starling
The UK has ended months of ambiguity by banning controversial stimulant DMAA, after its medicines agency won an appeal against a retailer of the most popular brand – USPlabs' Jack3D.
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