In the articles about the emerging Retail Super-highway and ‘Amazon effect on supplements’, Trust Transparency partner Scott Steinford and myself have written about the regulatory and fundamental quality responsibilities that…
There was a day when the only main regulatory concern for the dietary supplement industry was the FDA. Mel Gibson, many years ago, warned and protected us from the prying…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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