Inside the Bottle brings you the latest supplement industry news in this bi-monthly roundup.
Apr 13, 2021
Check out this manufacturer download and learn about the research that helped explain how the important bioactive compounds of these two botanical extracts come together to deliver results for muscle health in a new proprietary blend from PLT Health Solutions. Read more at Natural Products Insider.
Ingredients produced through synthetic biology can be so closely identical to naturally produced ingredients that they had been difficult to detect, but a new test means the natural products industry may need to do more to face up to the issue. Learn more about this test and how the industry might need to respond. Read more at New Hope Network.
According to a federal judge, a manufacturer of dietary supplements failed to properly test its ingredients and products in compliance with FDA regulations
Apr 09, 2021
How do supplement companies deal with the problem of scaling the supply chain in the face of extraordinary demand growth? Can companies identify exactly where each ingredient is coming from? And how do brands balance the issue of providing clean, traceable, and sustainable ingredients that are in short supply with consumers demanding products always be in stock?
In this episode of Inside The Bottle s Ask The Experts series, Loren Israelsen, president of United Natural Products Alliance, talks with senior vice president of business development Saumil Maheshvari from Orgenetics about how supplement companies are keeping up with rapidly growing demand through sustainable and transparent supply chains while committing to their values to do good by people and the planet, even during shortages.
Diverters finding more sophisticated ways to get products to resell at unauthorized discounts Product diversion, or unauthorized sales at a discount, continues to be a vexing problem in the dietary supplement industry. Observers say the power and reach of the Amazon sales platform has turbocharged the ability of diverters to quickly resell products obtained under false pretenses.
Sigmund Brzostowski is director of sales for longtime supplement brand Yerba Prima, which sells products in the detox, digestive health and fiber cleanse category. Brzostowski said his company works with a couple of authorized resellers on Amazon, but has had to go after others offering their products at a deep discount.