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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?

Good Manufacturing Practices inspections are ramping up—and so are the violations. In 2010, FDA discovered more instances of noncompliance by supplement companies than expected. The good news? These findings offer others guidance on how to ensure GMP compliance.

The World Stevia Organisation announces the final program of the 3rd World Congress on Stevia Tasteless in Paris.

The practitioner supplement company and the European pharmaceutical firm are teaming up to launch a line of natural products focused on the cancer supportive care market. Although the opportunity seems ripe, marketing challenges could abound for such a venture.

PepsiCo, Inc. has reported volume, revenue and operating profit growth for the first quarter of 2011 driven by top-line gains across its worldwide snacks and beverage businesses, and from the acquisitions of its anchor bottlers.

Alternative medicine service market in the United States for the years 2000-2009, Chiropractic, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Massage Therapy, Naturopathy, Osteopathy, Nurses/MDs and “Other” integrative medicine therapies are quantified.

Will natural product companies embrace facial mapping, brain-wave tracking and other sci-fi technologies to better understand what drives consumer preferences and purchasing behaviors?