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…

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Finding the Positive in Negative News

Pol·ly·an·na ˌpälēˈanə/ noun an excessively cheerful or optimistic person. Scott, the co-Managing Partner of Industry Transparency Center, considers me a Pollyanna, and that’s probably a decent quality to have as…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The Amazon Effect on Supplements

While Amazon began by selling books, the impact the corporation has on the economic market now effects almost every consumer and business segment in some capacity. Amazon sells diapers and…

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Did You Know? How Vitamins Are Named

Dr. Casimir Funk gets the credit for coining the term vitamin in 1912. Vitamins were originally called vitamines (short for vital amines), but when researchers realized the substances didn’t require…

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