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NAI becomes first company to step up to SSCI plate In the first of what is slated to be many such audits, Natural Alternatives International has become the first company to officially complete the SSCI certification process. The Supplement Safety & Compliance Initiative (SSCI) was created more than five years ago by some of the leader retailers, including Walmart and GNC, in collaboration with the Natural Products Association (NPA). More audits planned As the first company to complete the process, NAI is deeply connected to NPA.  NAI founder and CEO Mark LeDoux is also chairman of NPA’s bo...

What does Las Vegas have in common with a horde of the undead? "There's an addiction to gambling in a way that makes us zombies," Nora Arnezeder, one of the stars of Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead, tells SYFY WIRE. "I like the parallel between the world of Vegas and the zombie apocalypse. I think it's interesting." It's a rather perfect comparison that adds another thematic dimension to a film about a group of ragtag mercenaries trying to pull off an Ocean's 11-style heist several years after Sin City became ground zero for a zombie outbreak. With the government planning to nuke Vegas off t...

When it comes to making supplements and functional products, contract manufacturers do some heavy lifting, helping brands from sourcing and development to packaging and labeling. With so many clients depending on such partnerships to keep retail inventory stable during the pandemic-laced year that was 2020, contract manufacturers were under intense pressure to shore up sourcing and production. Through all this, they still had to keep an eye on the future to stay competitive in a world driven by innovation and progress. Natural Products Insider talked to several contract manufacturers about ho...

We held a virtual roundtable with several contract manufacturers for our digital magazine on contract manufacturing, and the following are bonus online questions and responses on ingredient challenges and servicing small brands/lines. Download the Insight into contract manufacturing – digital magazine, to see a fuller Q&A with these manufacturing leaders. Also, check out prior online bonus questions and answers on the pandemic and political impacts. Insider: Which ingredients or product types have presented the biggest challenge to you, and how did or will you overcome these? Mark LeDoux, N...

From the virtual roundtable for Insider’s contract manufacturing digital magazine, this bonus Q&A looks at pandemic and political impacts.