Consumers weigh in on immunity ingredients
It’s nearly universally agreed that 2020 changed the way consumers purchase nutritional supplements, with a huge amount of attention being placed on immunity. This trend is not going away as…
A Transparency Question – Should Synthetic Supplement Ingredients be Labelled?
Supplements containing synthetic ingredients or excipients have been around for a long time. Most people in the industry define synthetic supplements as supplements made from ingredients that were created in…
What’s Wrong with this Picture? Focus on Contract Manufacturing
We’ve talked about this before. Possibly the most opaque element of the dietary supplement supply chain is the contract manufacturer. Arguably, contract manufacturers have the largest role in the production…
ABC Testing Labs Doesn’t Begin to Describe the Danger of Inadequate Testing Competency
This column has looked at FDA Warning Letters as “must reads” (4/24/2018) and unbelievable reads (6/5/2019), yet a recent FDA Warning Letter to Advanced Botanical Consulting & Testing Inc. (ABC…
Confidence should be a good thing, right?
You’d think any headline that had the words confidence and supplements in the same headline would be a good thing, right? Not so this past week as the dietary supplement…
Responsibility in Establishing and Maintaining FDA Audit Readiness
Continuing our plan to detail the regulatory and fundamental quality responsibilities that all brand manufacturers (especially online-only brands) need to embrace, this piece offers a short discussion about another responsibility/accountability…
The Confusing State of States’ Sales Tax
Confusion has been the consistent word whenever we speak of regulations and how they are interpreted and applied to the ecommerce retailer. Usually we are discussing the FDA or FTC…
A Purr-fect Visit to Global Pet Expo
Many of our readers have recently returned from the annual mega-event, Natural Products Expo West 2019. All of us who attended have the same notion of “I survived.” Expo West…
A rose by any other name – The Amazon CBD Story
The CBD and hemp conversation is extremely confusing right now, and perhaps nowhere more so than in a dialogue with e-tailing giant Amazon. Amazon has taken an apparently clear position…
Musings from SupplySide West 2018
Another SupplySide West into the books (year 19) and Mandalay Bay almost feels like home. I say ‘almost’ because it’s still not quite like those earlier days at the Venetian.…