Vita-Tech International, Inc. is a US-based custom manufacturer and innovator of nutritional supplements for contract manufacture and private label, with over 50 years of service to the natural products industry worldwide. We manufacture tablets, two-piece capsules and powders of the highest quality in a pharmaceutical environment, and are licensed by the FDA.

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• Chemi Nutra Hires New Sales Manager
  [2006/10/09][Chemi Nutra]
  Company announces that Blake Kraemer has joined as Sales Manager, and will be involved in the sales and marketing efforts for Chemi Nutra’s specialty nutraceutical ingredients to the nutritional supplement, functional food, and medical food arenas.
   
• Healthy Products Are Brisk Business at Record-Setting Natural Products Expo East 2006
  [2006/10/09][New Hope Natural Media]
  With more than 1,700 exhibits, over 23,000 industry attendees were the first to see the latest trends in natural and organic food, dietary supplements, personal care and new healthy lifestyle categories.
   
• 12th Annual Socially Responsible Business Awards Winners Announced
  [2006/09/08][Socially Responsible Business Awards ]
  The 12th Annual Socially Responsible Business Awards, given Friday morning, October 6, 2006 at the Baltimore Convention Center, went to Manitoba Harvest, Hemp Foods and Oils; Sambazon, Brazilian Acai Products; and Herb Pharm Organic & Wildcrafted Herbal Extracts.
   
• Lonza to Present Seminar on Larch Arabinogalactan at SupplySide West
  [2006/09/08][Lonza]
  Lonza will host a seminar presented by Bryan Rodriguez at the SupplySide West tradeshow on October 20, 2006, entitled “Larch Arabinogalactan’s Impact on the Immune System: A Clinical Perspective”. Rodriguez, Technical Marketing and Scientific Affairs Manager for Lonza’s nutrition group, will present findings on Larch Arabinogalactan (LAG), a polysaccharide known to beneficially impact the immune system.
   
• FDA Authorizes Qualified Health Claim for Canola Oil
  [2006/10/08][U.S. Canola Association]
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that canola oil is now eligible to bear a qualified health claim on its ability to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) due to its unsaturated fat content. The claim, which canola oil bottlers and makers of eligible products* may use on labels, states: Limited and not conclusive scientific evidence suggests that eating about 1 1/2 tablespoons (19 grams) of canola oil daily may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease due to the unsaturated fat content in canola oil. To achieve this possible benefit, canola oil is to replace a similar amount of saturated fat and not increase the total number of calories you eat in a day. One serving of this product contains [x] grams of canola oil.
   
• GFTC Appoints New Business Development Manager
  [2006/10/07][Guelph Food Technology Centre (GFTC)]
  GFTC announces that Mr. Nadim Khan has joined GFTC in the position of Business Development Manager, Technical Services, effective October 2, 2006.
   
• Forbes Medi-Tech Announces the Further Expansion of Dairy Products Containing Reducol(tm) in Europe Through the Carrefour Group
  [2006/10/06][Forbes Medi-Tech]
  Champion, based in France (a Groupe Carrefour banner), will be creating five new dairy products containing Forbes Medi-Tech's cholesterol-lowering ingredient, Reducol(tm). The following products will be launched on the market through Champion stores: original and strawberry flavored yogurt drinks, a mixed strawberry and apricot flavored yogurt, and an all natural (fruit base) set yogurt. The Carrefour superstores will sell these products under their brand name Agir Nutrition.
   
• International Companies Band Together To Form New Omega-3 Trade Association
  [2006/10/06][GOED Omega-3 (Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3)]
  A group of international companies have come together to form a new Omega-3 trade association called the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3 (GOED Omega-3). GOED Omega-3 is comprised of EPA and DHA Omega-3 industry processors, refiners, manufacturers, distributors, marketers and retailers, as well as secondary associates and other interested parties including healthcare professionals, educators, and researchers.
   
• Cardinal Nutrition Changes to Bergstrom Nutrition
  [2006/10/05][Bergstrom Nutrition]
  Cardinal Nutrition, nutritional ingredients company and manufacturer of OptiMSM®, will be now known as Bergstrom Nutrition.
   
• Solbar Names Jose Cadillac as European Senior Marketing & Sales Director
  [2006/10/05][Solbar Industries Ltd.]
  Company has named Jose Cadillac as Senior Marketing & Sales Director - Europe. Cadillac will direct marketing and sales activities for Europe, as well as Strategic Accounts.
   
• Enzymotec announces another expansion of its phospholipids plant
  [2006/10/05][Enzymotec]
  Enzymotec announced today on a third plant expansion for this year in an effort to meet the increasing demand of its various accounts and to meet projected demands of it novel Sharp-PS(TM) GOLD grade .
   
• Aristo Health Inc. To Promote Heart Choice(TM)
  [2006/10/04][Aristo Health Inc. ]
  Company announces a licensing agreement with Cogni Nutrition and Health to utilize and co-brand Heart Choice (TM).
   
• HerbDay: An Authentic Grass-Roots Movement Takes Root
  [2006/10/03][HerbDay 2006]
  October 14, 2006, marks the first ever HerbDay, which is being celebrated in cities throughout the country to honor the role of herbs in our lives.
   
• Soft Gel Technologies, Inc.® To Introduce a New Cardiovascular Formula Containing PomElla® Pomegranate Extract at SupplySide West
  [2006/10/03][Soft Gel Technologies, Inc.® (SGTI)]
  Soft Gel Technologies, Inc.® (SGTI) and Geni Herbs have aligned to launch a comprehensive, new heart-health product containing PomElla® natural-spectrum pomegranate extract, tocotrienols, mixed tocopherols, and marine lipids. PomElla® soft gels will be introduced in October at the SupplySide West trade show in Las Vegas, NV.
   
• LycoRed Launches New Radio Campaign in USA
  [2006/10/03][LycoRed Corp.]
  Company will begin a new round of national radio spots to educate consumers on the health benefits of Lyc-O-Mato(R) tomato lycopene complex.
   
• Sabinsa Corporation Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Archer Daniels Midland
  [2006/10/03][Sabinsa Corporation]
  Company announces that it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), which charged that Sabinsa's GENIMAX(R) soy-based isoflavone products infringed on ADM's patented technology.
   
• Verdure Sciences Established With Focus On Bionutritional Research
  [2006/10/02][Verdure Sciences]
  Verdure Sciences has announced future plans to focus on the research and development of innovative bionutritionals.
   
• 'Turducken' Ready After Quiet Hurricane Season
  [2006/10/02][cajungrocer.com]
  Turducken, a turkey stuffed with a duck which has been stuffed with a chicken, is deboned and available with succulent Cornbread Dressing, Cajun Seafood Jambalaya, or Creole Sausage Stuffing.

• Forbes Medi-Tech Announces the Further Expansion of Dairy Products Containing Reducol(tm) in Europe
  [2006/10/06][Forbes Medi-Tech Inc.]
  Forbes Medi-Tech Announces the Further Expansion of Dairy Products Containing Reducol(tm) in Europe Through the Carrefour Group, Specifically Through the Champion and Carrefour Banner
   
• Acatris Health Group Announces Name Change to Frutarom Group
  [2006/10/05][Acatris]
  Acatris Health Group has announced that it was acquired by Israeli based Frutarom Group.
   
• Gadot signs an agreement with Tate & Lyle to build new sugar refining plant in Israel
  [2006/10/05][Gadot Biochemical Industries, Ltd. ]
  has signed an agreement with Tate & Lyle (T&L), UK, to establish a joint enterprise for building and operating a new plant for raw sugar refinement. The plant will be built at Gadot's premises in Haifa Bay, Israel.
   
• Verdure Sciences Acquires Leading Brand Ingredients From Geni Herbs
  [2006/10/04][Verdure Sciences]
   
• Lifeline Therapeutics, Inc. Announces New Sales and Marketing Vice President and Director of Natural Products
  [2006/10/03][Lifeline Therapeutics, Inc.]
  Company announces that Mr. Anthony Del Vicario and Ms. Alexis Luce have joined the Company. Mr. Del Vicario will hold the newly created position of Vice President of Strategic Sales and Marketing, while Ms. Luce will serve as Director for Natural Products Sales and Marketing.
   
• Frutarom Acquires Acatris Health
  [2006/10/03][Frutarom]
  Company announces that it has signed an agreement for the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of multinational Acatris Health in consideration for a cash payment of Euro 10.5 million.
   
• Zila Completes Strategic Divestiture of Nutraceuticals Division
  [2006/10/03][Zila, Inc.]
  Company has completed the divestiture of its wholly-owned subsidiary Zila Nutraceuticals, Inc. for a total cash transaction of $37.5 million with up to an additional $3 million to be paid through an earn-out formula dependent upon the future performance of the business.
   
• Tate & Lyle PLC and Microbia Precision Engineering, Inc. form partnership to develop and commercialise fermentation-derived renewable ingredients
  [2006/10/02][Tate & Lyle]
  Company and Microbia Precision Engineering, Inc, today have formed a multi-year partnership to develop fermentation-derived renewable ingredients. As part of the agreement, Tate & Lyle will invest US$7 million to acquire a minority shareholding in Microbia Precision Engineering, Inc, and take one seat on the board. In addition, Tate & Lyle will invest a further US$13.75 million in research and development over a period of five years.
   
• United Natural Foods, Inc. Extends Long-Term Partnership With Whole Foods Market(R)
  [2006/10/02][United Natural Foods,]
  Whole Foods Market Distribution, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Whole Foods Market, Inc. and UNFI have entered into a new seven-year Primary Distribution Agreement with UNFI, under which United Natural Foods will continue to serve as the primary wholesale natural grocery distributor to Whole Foods Market in its United States regions where United Natural Foods currently serves as the primary distributor.
   
• Lipid Nutrition announces important business change
  [2006/10/02][Lipid Nutrition]
  As of today Lipid Nutrition will be a private limited liability company (B.V.) in its own right, part of Loders Croklaan Group (subsidiary of IOI Corporation Berhad, Malaysia). The new business structure allows Lipid Nutrition to operate as an independent entity.
   
• Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. Enters Into Strategic Sourcing Agreement with Kinerase® Skincare Brand
  [2006/10/02][Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc.]
  Company has entered into the cosmeceutical market via a strategic sourcing agreement with Kinerase®. The Kinerase brand included Neptune Krill Oil (NKOTM) in its new Kinerase Multi-Vitamins, Minerals and Nutrients.

• Study shows unique garlic product works like the real thing
  [2006/10/08][Nutra Products Inc.]
  A study presented at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Nutrition today suggests that a new proprietary garlic product developed by Nutra Products, Inc., Garli-Eze®, delivers allicin, the key bioactive ingredient of garlic, to the body in amounts equal to that of fresh high allicin garlic macerate and yielded no unsocial responses due to chewing fresh garlic.
   
• FDA Authorizes Qualified Health Claim for Canola Oil
  [2006/10/08][U.S. Canola Association]
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that canola oil is now eligible to bear a qualified health claim on its ability to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) due to its unsaturated fat content. The claim, which canola oil bottlers and makers of eligible products* may use on labels, states: Limited and not conclusive scientific evidence suggests that eating about 1 1/2 tablespoons (19 grams) of canola oil daily may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease due to the unsaturated fat content in canola oil. To achieve this possible benefit, canola oil is to replace a similar amount of saturated fat and not increase the total number of calories you eat in a day. One serving of this product contains [x] grams of canola oil.
   
• Decas Botanical Synergies Announces PACran(TM) Human Clinical Results
  [2006/10/08][Decas Botanical Synergies (DBS)]
  Double blind 90-day study examined the effect of supplementation with PACran on women volunteers confirmed with the presence of E. coli in the culture of urine samples. At the end of the 90-day treatment period, a daily oral dose of 500 mg of PACran was shown to significantly reduce the presence of E. coli.
   
• EcoNugenics, Inc. Reveals NIH-Sponsored Study Results
  [2006/10/05][EcoNugenics®, Inc.]
  Company discloses findings of a National Institute on Health funded study undertaken to assess PectaSol® MCP as a safe, and effective oral chelator of lead, mercury, arsenic and other toxic metals from the human body, which indicated that oral administration of MCP resulted in significant increases in the urinary excretion of arsenic, cadmium, mercury and lead.
   
• New Zealand clinical trial results point to promising global wound management opportunities
  [2006/10/04][Keratec Limited ]
  Keratec Limited and US-based Keraplast Technologies Limited announced the successful completion of a human clinical trial of their patented Keragen™ range of chronic wound treatment products.
   
• Pine Tree Bark Reduces Diabetic Microangiopathy
  [2006/10/03][Natural Health Science Inc., (NHS)]
  Study published in the September edition of Angiology shows that supplementation with Pycnogenol significantly reduced diabetic microangiopathy (DM).

• Capsugel Launches an Improved Laboratory -Scale Liquid Capsule Filling and Sealing (CFS) Machine
  [2006/10/09][Capsugel]
  Company has announced the launch of the CFS1200, an improved version of its laboratory-scale Capsule Filling and Sealing system.
   
• New Natural Product, Liberate(R), Available in the US
  [2006/10/08][Phoenix Biologics Inc.]
  Phoenix Biologics Inc. announces an agreement with Migco Pharmaceuticals Ltd. to manufacture and distribute a new natural health product, Liberate(R), containing Preoxus(R), targeted at migraine prevention.
   
• Sambazon Launches First Organic Acai Juice into Stores Nationwide
  [2006/10/08][Sambazon]
  Company has announced the launch of a new organic acai juice.
   
• Forbes Medi-Tech Announces the Further Expansion of Dairy Products Containing Reducol(tm) in Europe Through the Carrefour Group
  [2006/10/06][Forbes Medi-Tech]
  Champion, based in France (a Groupe Carrefour banner), will be creating five new dairy products containing Forbes Medi-Tech's cholesterol-lowering ingredient, Reducol(tm). The following products will be launched on the market through Champion stores: original and strawberry flavored yogurt drinks, a mixed strawberry and apricot flavored yogurt, and an all natural (fruit base) set yogurt. The Carrefour superstores will sell these products under their brand name Agir Nutrition.
   
• Aristo Health Inc. To Promote Heart Choice(TM)
  [2006/10/04][Aristo Health Inc. ]
  Company announces a licensing agreement with Cogni Nutrition and Health to utilize and co-brand Heart Choice (TM).
   
• Amazing Açaí - the new wonder Berry from Beraca
  [2006/10/03][S. Black]
  S. Black is pleased to announce the launch of Açaí Oil to the UK cosmetics industry. Available in both Organic and Regular Grades, Açaí Oil has the same properties as the superfruit itself.
   
• Introducing BioPureDHA(tm)
  [2006/10/03][Bioriginal]
  Company announces launch of an exclusively-sourced premium fish oil: BioPureDHA(tm).
   
• Soft Gel Technologies, Inc.® To Introduce a New Cardiovascular Formula Containing PomElla® Pomegranate Extract at SupplySide West
  [2006/10/03][Soft Gel Technologies, Inc.® (SGTI)]
  Soft Gel Technologies, Inc.® (SGTI) and Geni Herbs have aligned to launch a comprehensive, new heart-health product containing PomElla® natural-spectrum pomegranate extract, tocotrienols, mixed tocopherols, and marine lipids. PomElla® soft gels will be introduced in October at the SupplySide West trade show in Las Vegas, NV.
   
• Garden of Life(R) Introduces Primal Defense(R) Kids
  [2006/10/03][Garden of Life(R) ]
  Company announces the launch of Primal Defense® Kids, a new product with healthy probiotics specifically formulated for children.
   
• Pine Tree Bark Reduces Diabetic Microangiopathy
  [2006/10/03][Natural Health Science Inc., (NHS)]
  Study published in the September edition of Angiology shows that supplementation with Pycnogenol significantly reduced diabetic microangiopathy (DM).
   
• Mannatech Introduces MannaBar
  [2006/10/03][Mannatech, Incorporated ]
  Company introduces MannaBar low-glycemic nutritional bar containing the company's proprietary Ambrotose complex plus 80 milligrams of DHA and EPA omega-3 fatty acids.
   
• SLIMALUMA gets Kosher and Halal Status
  [2006/09/30][Gencor Pacific Inc.]
  Facility manufacturing Slimaluma has attained Star-K Kosher Certification and IFANCA Halal Certification.
   
• Introducing CranAssure
  [2006/09/29][Pharmavite]
  Pharmavite LLC announces an exclusive licensing agreement with Ocean Spray(R) Cranberries Inc. to use Ocean Spray's strongest cranberry extract in CranAssure and feature the Ocean Spray name, trademark and logo on the product's label.

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