Export rules, COVID disrupt energy ingredients | Natural Products INSIDER
Strict export regulations and regional COVID-related limitations are slowing China-originating supply chains for two top sports nutrition energy ingredients, caffeine and creatine. Outside of China, suppliers and manufacturers are clamoring to beef up inventories of these increasingly hard-to-find materials but face steeply rising prices for whatever supply they can secure. Longtime sports nutrition formulator Bruce Kneller, whose import-export company Hong Kong Life Sciences deals with such ingredients, reported lead time for caffeine is indefinite. “Our suppliers have increased price...
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