US Nutrition Market People News: CRN/Radicle Award, Nourish, VSI, LabConnect, Akita, More

CRN/Radicle Trailblazing Woman Award to ChromaDex’s Yasmeen Nkrumah-Elie; Nourish’s TV ad campaign features US soccer star Alex Morgan; Vitamin Shoppe BodyTech Elite Altered Strength line sponsors Team Red, White & Blues; contract pharma/consumer health product development firm LabConnect appoints Wesley Wheeler CEO; Avanos’ Game Ready is “Recovery Partner” of NFL’s Nick Bosa; Akita adds Robert Hanson to advisory board; and BODi has wrestler as brand ambassador

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Yasmeen Nkrumah-Elie, global director for external research at ChromaDex Corp., receives the first Trailblazing Woman Award from the Council for Responsible Nutrition and clinical trial services and technology firm Radicle Science Inc.

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