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Engage consumers in social media conversation from the moment they pick up your natural product’s package. These social media ideas for product packaging work for dietary supplements, foods and beverages.

New human clinical research from açaí-giant Sambazon shows the superfruit may reduce risk factors in metabolic syndrome. Will clinical studies such as this one put more consumer trust back into açaí?

Nanoagriculture regulation is coming, even if we don’t know yet how nanotechnology affects a plant’s biology—and for that matter, our own. The antidote: More studies on nanotech.

The Environmental Working Group’s latest Dirty Dozen list reveals dirty pesticide practices, with apples jumping up three spots to number one and cilantro getting attention for having the highest amount of unapproved pesticides in the list’s history.

Yesterday, the Senate voted against postponing swipe fee reform for debit cards, causing celebrations among the natural retailer community as debit card transaction fees are poised to fall from 44 cents to 12 cents.

Several years of FDA enforcement action has culminated this week as U.S. Marshalls seized dietary supplements products from UAS Laboratories and Wyldewood Cellars because of drug claims on product labels.

Ganeden Biotech recently sold the exclusive worldwide rights to GanedenBC30 and its over-the-counter supplement brands to Schiff Nutrition International, a large dietary supplements manufacturer, for $40 million. The question is: Why?

Could a simple plate graphic affect some of America’s greatest issues, beginning with childhood obesity? Nutritionists and healthcare experts sound off on the USDA’s new MyPlate.

Medical foods are clearly defined by FDA—or are they? Several companies have taken medical foods beyond the physician’s office, while others are still unsure how to achieve the medical foods label.