Nutrition Business Journal would like you to participate in our 2008 Sports Nutrition & Weight Loss Manufacturer/Marketer Survey. Data collected in the survey will be used in NBJ’s September 2008 Sports Nutrition & Weight Loss issue. The survey should take you no more than 5 minutes. As a thank you for participating, you will receive a free copy of the survey results once the research has been completed. Any comments, questions or concerns should be directed to NBJ Research Manager Jason Phillips at 303.998.9249.

-Patrick

Last year, I attended the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s annual conference in Arizona. It’s a great event that brings business leaders together to learn about the scientific and regulatory issues that Steve Mister, Judy Blatman and the whole team at CRN do a great job overseeing every day from their home in Washington, D.C.

And like the NBJ Summit, the hotel hosting CRN’s “The Conference” is selling out quickly this year. So, if you plan on attending The Conference this October 2-5 at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa outside of Albuqurque, New Mexico, make sure you book your hotel room ASAP. There aren’t any other hotels nearby this (somewhat) isolated resort…let’s call it an oasis…so book your hotel NOW make sure you can enjoy this deluxe location.

I hope to see you there!

-Patrick

Australian consumer group Choice tested “several supplements” and concluded that two servings of fish each week that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids will boost brain function as much or more than supplements containing ginkgo biloba, brahmi or fish oil.

Key to the findings were that the fish oils tested didn’t contain the maximum daily amount of omega-3 fatty acids.

Certainly, it isn’t always easy for consumers to intake the maximum recommended daily intake of omega-3 fatty acids and many suggest over-consuming fish oil supplements.

Still, like many other critical stories of the supplement industry, efficacous dose is the prevailing theme of this article and something every manufacturer & marketer should be concerned with.

To read more, go to:

Reuters UK: Fish meals better for brain than supplements: survey

or

Australian Food: No substitute for the health benefits of seafood

If you are a subscriber to Nutrition Business Journal, you can now access all of the 2008 Nutrition Industry Overview online at nutritionbusinessjournal.com. No need to sort through your over flowing mailbox, search your desk and interrogate your co-workers for your copy of NBJ. Just go to nutritionbusinessjournal.com.

To see all the articles, go to the current issue page. Here you will see the entire overview issue laid out in an expanded table of contents view. From here you can link to every article if you are signed in as an NBJ subscriber.

If you do not know your NBJ subscriber username and password, call Rachel Dederich, NBJ’s Subscriber Services Coordinator, at 303.998.9263.

-Patrick

The nutritional raw materials & ingredient supply space isn’t a Birkenstocks and hacky-sacs crowd. At Natural Products Expo West, you simply have to walk down to SupplyExpo in Hall A to experience the difference first-hand. And while the Natural Products Expo side of the show is more popular, the real innovation happens at SupplyExpo.

The business of nutritional raw material & ingredient supply is a lesser-researched part of the nutrition industry value chain. We’ve made it our specialty to shine light on this part of the nutrition industry and try to make sense of the global supply landscape as it pertains to the U.S. market for nutrition products.

High transportation costs, a weakening dollar and a weak economy all conspired to challenge ingredient suppliers in 2007 and into 2008. Mother nature didn’t hold back either. Suppliers of herbs and botanicals were also impacted by droughts, flooding and other server weather across the world.

As with challenges, opportunities for nutritional raw material and ingredient supply companies were fairly universal, according to executives in the nutrition industry’s supply chain.

Regulatory stabilization, geographical diversification and the implementation of GMPs are all on executives minds in 2008 and covered in detail in NBJ’s latest market research report.

All of this and more is covered in NBJ’s Nutritional Raw Materials & Ingredient Supply Report…one of the few places you’ll be able to find a broad and deep analysis of the nutrition industry’s value chain.

-Patrick