April 19, 2011 (St. Louis, MO USA) – Nutraceutical Business & Technology (NBT), a leading international business-to-business magazine covering the nutraceutical and functional food industries, has named Stratum Nutrition as a finalist for its inaugural NBT Awards in the Environmental Excellence category. The NBT Awards will be given out during Vitafoods Europe on Wednesday, May 11 at the Starling Geneva Hotel & Conference Center in Geneva, Switzerland.

April 12, 2011 (St. Louis, MO USA) – ARTINIA™, a novel chitin-glucan fiber ingredient from Stratum Nutrition, was the subject of a study recently published on-line (March 15, 2011) in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, which examined the ability for chitin-glucan, branded as ARTINIA™, to alter the composition of gut microbiota associated with the development of obesity. This study provides direct evidence that in high-fat, diet-induced obese mice, ARTINIA promotes the growth of beneficial bacteria (Roseburia) along with suppressing weight gain, fat deposition, and improving glucose tolerance.

St. Louis, Mo. (March 2, 2011) - Stratum Nutrition, a Novus International Business focusing on nutrition through functional and specialty ingredients, introduces TeaFense™, a patented, whole food ingredient that combines the benefits of green tea and capsicum to support healthy aging.

ST. LOUIS, MO (USA), February 18, 2011 – Children’s malnutrition organization, Vitamin Angels, is distributing more than 345,000 zinc tablets to help prevent children’s deaths due to diarrhea, thanks to a donation by St. Charles, Missouri-based Novus International, Inc., a global industry leader in nutrition and health. The zinc tablets are being provided through Novus’s human ingredient division Stratum Nutrition, also based in St. Charles, Missouri. The tablets will be used to supplement oral rehydration salt (ORS) to reduce diarrheal episodes in infants and children under the age of five, the age group most vulnerable to this illness.

January 19, 2011 (St. Louis, MO USA) – Nutrition Business Journal has selected Stratum Nutrition to receive a Business Achievement Award in the “Investment in the Future” category. “We are honored to receive this esteemed recognition from Nutrition Business Journal and will continue our efforts to bring ingredient technologies with solid intellectual property and strong scientific and clinical research to market to meet the growing global need for nutrition and health,” stated Jeremy Moore, Global Business Director, Stratum Nutrition.

December 1, 2010 (St. Louis, MO USA) Stratum Nutrition, a Novus International business, announces today that its parent company has acquired a significant interest in ESM Technologies, LLC of Carthage, MO. ESM Technologies now becomes a “joint venture” between its previous owners and Stratum’s parent. ESM will continue to be run by current management. Previously, Stratum Nutrition and ESM had been working together under a strategic alliance termed a “Technology Partnership”.