A new decade, new opportunities….
As we kick off a new year and new decade, I figured I’d write a few words outlining our ITC thoughts, to augment the What’s Hot / What’s Not info…
ITC’s 2020 Vision for the Natural Products Industry
This is year three for ITC’s trend predictions and for the most part they’ve held up (check last year’s here). Developing these is never easy—our team has multiple conversations/debates etc.…
Musings from Food Ingredients Europe
I returned Food Ingredients Europe in Paris last week with a solid reaffirmation – try to avoid industry events in France. Don’t get me wrong, this is not an indictment…
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Our weekly posts have been entertaining and thought provoking to write. We have covered a number of topics ranging from hopeful to insightful. Today’s post originated with a series of…
Happy Thanksgiving!
We are thankful this time of year and always to do work we believe in with and for people we like in an industry that helps people.Our team took a…
Flawed nutrition science reporting hurts the industry…what we can do about it
Practically every day there are headlines about a new nutrition study. Some are favorable toward the food item/nutrient/ingredient and some are negative. When the results are positive, we as an…
How Trust Transparency Sells Supplements
Trust transparency is at the top and bottom of every communication and blog our group posts, but we rarely talk about what the phrase really means to us in the…
Musings From FNCE 2019
For years, I’d heard about it – FNCE, the annual gathering of some 10,000 dietitians, where the sciences of dietetics and nutrition, the food pyramid and food policy and increasingly,…
Musings from SSW 2019
Another SupplySide West is in the books, and I’m left feeling pretty inadequate in how I covered the show. Sure, I had a productive week, filled with meetings, presentations, events…
The Amazon marketplace – September 2019 update
Industry Transparency Center has been following and reporting on the “Amazon Effect” on the dietary supplement industry since March 2017. In that time, the impacts have been numerous and far…