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More than half the cosmetics sold in the United States and Canada likely contain high levels of a toxic industrial compound linked to serious health conditions, including cancer and reduced birth weight, according to a new study.

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News featured in NuFFooDS Spectrum India

NuFFooDS Spectrum India, a leading B2B media platform in nutrition, nutraceuticals and dietary supplements, functional foods and beverages, ingredients space since 2013 has launched its first ranking special edition in February 2021. The survey looked at only the nutraceutical industry with companies specializing in vitamins/ minerals/nutrients (VMN). The companies (both MNCs and domestic players) were highlighted based on their achievements over the previous financial years.

With over 1000 companies actively involved in the business of manufacturing and selling nutraceutical products comprising VMN, the Indian nutrients market has registered a growth of 10.5 percent in 2019-20 to garner Rs. 23,893 crore against the previous year’s sales revenue of Rs. 21,616 crore. Indian companies contribute 66 percent of the total Nutra (vitamin/ minerals/ nutrients) industry while the remaining 34 percent comes from the MNCs. The Western region is dominating the nutraceutical industry as 71 percent of the companies are based in this region, followed by the Southern region, home to 21 percent of the nutraceutical companies.

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News featured in Nuffoods Spectrum

NuFFooDs Spectrum covered an article authored by Dr. R.B.Smarta, Chairman and Managing Director, Interlink Marketing Consulting in May 2019 issue and subsequently spoke to many experts, leading dieticians, industry leaders on "Is nutraceutical identity overlapping?" to get their views and thoughts.

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New research expands upon use of curcumin c3 complex as an adjunct to chemotherapy

Sabinsa Curcumin C3 Complex® has been studied as and adjuvant therapy with several cancer drugs in the past, and the body of science continues to grow with the recent publication of more positive research.

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Shaheen Majeed has been promoted to President of Sabinsa Worldwide, with responsibility for manufacturing, marketing, strategies and other operational matters. He is actively involved in Sabinsa's extensive cultivation program, interacting with farmers to ensure sustainability of quality raw materials from which Sabinsa manufactures the company’s high quality, proprietary ingredients. Shaheen earned a BA in Economics from Rutgers University, NJ and an MBA in Business Management from Keller Management School, CA. In 2009 Natural Foods Merchandiser magazine named him one of 40 under 40 notable members of the industry.

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The Sami-Sabinsa Group* has committed to fund a 10-year reforestation project that will oversee the planting of more than 166,600 Indian kino (Pterocarpus marsupium, Fabaceae) trees on 250 acres in the large central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.1 The group expects to spend about $500,000 on the project, which it claims is the first initiative to conserve this high-value, multipurpose, threatened species in India. The project earned the NutraIngredients-USA Editors Award for Industry Initiative of the Year for 2018.2 The Indian kino tree has been used in India’s traditional medicine system of Ayurveda, and extracts of the heartwood have demonstrated antidiabetic properties (see “About the Indian Kino Tree” sidebar)...

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NutraIngredients-USA, July 25, 2018

Ingredient manufacturer and supplier Sabinsa’s -year reforestation project for Indian Kino, or Pterocarpus marsupium, won the NutraIngredients-USA Editor’s Award for Industry Initiative of the Year.

The initiative, which was announced in May this year, will ensure that 250 acres in the Seoni and Balaghat regions in Madhya Pradesh state, India, will be planted with more than 166,600 Indian kino trees, which is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species...


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Cosmeceuticals, "performance cosmetics", "functional cosmetics", "dermoceuticals", "active cosmetics".... these are the buzz words in twenty first century personal care. The revolution they triggered is apparent from the fact that cosmetics are no longer visualized as products that cover up or camouflage imperfections in personal appearance. Today's healthful cosmetics offer protective, healing and rejuvenative attributes as well. .

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Aging is attributed to the effects of collective damage to connective tissues, that overpowers the body's natural ability to repair them. The perceptible signs of skin aging include discoloration, wrinkles, and texture loss. These effects result from structural and metabolic changes effected by biochemical reactions in the connective tissues, that are accelerated by free radicals.

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