Musings from Vitafoods Europe 2018
I’m pretty sure that’s 14 or perhaps even 15 Vitafoods Europe in the books for me. In those attendances over 18 years, the world has become noticeably different, as have…
Trust Transparency Outside the Traditional Supply Chain
Business faith and trust these days is so fragile. A couple weeks ago, a PR Week article reported on marketers surveyed by the Chief Marketing Officer Council which underscores just…
Survey – Who takes supplements
A recent article entitled “Older Americans Are Hooked on Vitamins Despite Scarce Evidence They Work” was recently written by Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News and later picked up by…
DNA Testing – Panacea or Pandora’s Box
The health industry has long had a fascination and deserved excitement towards personalized medicine. I have personally been in wonderment as I have admired many presentations by Dr. Jeffrey Bland…
A Must-Read FDA Warning Letter That Truly Inspires
There’s both good and bad news in examining the current state of FDA warning letters. The number of warning letters from the FDA to the Dietary Supplement industry in 2018…
Musings from SupplySide East – Product quality misses and more
What a sense of deja vu. Just arriving in Secaucus was enough to set me shivering a bit -and not solely in anticipation. In the old days, we’d drive down…
Trade War Raises Industry’s China Conundrum…Again
As the possibility of an extended trade war between the United States and China heats up and rhetoric flies, the dietary supplement industry finds itself in strange territory. This pending…
TrustTransparency Showcased at Expo West 2018
At the core of our company’s values is the notion that trust and transparency should always be considered one word: trust transparency. At its most basic definition, trusttransparency is the…
Supplement Industry Self-Policing Still Inadequate
Why is the dietary supplement industry allowing itself to become worse instead of better at self-policing? The dietary supplement industry is often accused of being unregulated, yet, in reality, it…
A Global Affair – tales of twisted supply chains
With news breaking that European authorities have determined that over two thirds of websites (779 of 1100 websites) are offering non-authorized products, or that the products carry unsubstantiated claims, the…