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…
New supplement retail superhighway could have real potholes
Several weeks ago, we wrote about seven regulatory and fundamental compliance areas where emerging brands using the e-tail channel, especially on Amazon, may be taking shortcuts either through ignorance or…
Athletes Have More Info Than Ever to Make Smart Supplement Choices
I love watching the Olympics—learning about countries we rarely hear about, celebrating individuals overcoming significant obstacles, and watching breathtaking athletic feats. During the Games, along with most major sporting events,…
When a Supplement Outperforms a Drug
When a dietary supplement ingredient outperforms a new pharmaceutical drug, the world does take notice, but the eventual outcomes are predictably different. This is what happened when two separate studies…
A Transparency Discussion – Clean Label in Supplements
If dietary supplements are truly best represented as part of the natural products industry, then the natural versus synthetic ingredients issue smoothly goes away. For how then can synthetic ingredients…
Creating value through supply chain partner management
As a pragmatic, logical person, I frequently find myself, not without some difficulty, attempting to calculate a hard return or quantitative portion to the more qualitative aspects associated with value-laden…