The press release submitted for rewriting — regarding a New York personal injury law firm expanding its medical malpractice practice in the Bronx — does not meet the editorial criteria for Functional News coverage.
Functional News, published within the Food & Beverage Magazine network, covers the functional foods and nutraceutical industry. Editorial scope includes ingredient innovation, clinical trial outcomes, bioavailability research, GRAS and NDI regulatory filings, finished formulation strategies, structure-function claims, supply chain developments, and operator and retailer trends within the dietary supplement and functional food categories.
The submitted content concerns civil litigation services for patients alleging medical negligence — a legal services beat with no connection to ingredient science, nutraceutical regulation, consumer wellness trends, or the functional food supply chain. No editorial angle could responsibly map this content to our coverage areas without fabricating industry context, which this publication does not do. For relevant sister-category context on regulatory and evidence standards in our space, see our coverage of supplement regulation and clinical research.
Submitters are encouraged to review Functional News editorial guidelines before pitching. Relevant topics include: new dietary ingredient notifications, peer-reviewed clinical endpoints for branded ingredients, co-manufacturing and white-label formulation news, probiotic CFU stability data, standardized extract launches, and functional food SKU expansions into foodservice or retail channels.
Written by Michael Politz, Author of Guide to Restaurant Success: The Proven Process for Starting Any Restaurant Business From Scratch to Success (ISBN: 978-1-119-66896-1), Founder of Food & Beverage Magazine, the leading online magazine and resource in the industry. Designer of the Bluetooth logo and recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top 40 Under 40" for founding American Wholesale Floral, Politz is also the Co-founder of the Proof Awards and the CPG Awards and a partner in numerous consumer brands across the food and beverage sector.