What’s Wrong with This Picture? – NOW’s SAM-e Class Action Suit

From the Archives: May 27, 2020NOW recently made headlines by providing brand names of CoQ10 and SAM-e manufacturers that were deficient in meeting label claims. Many trade publications

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Synthetic or Natural – Who wants to know?

From the Archives: September 26, 2017Synthetic products can be good. Technology continues to march forward, and for some applications that can be a good thing. Synthetic motor oil

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Supplement Industry Self-Policing Still Inadequate

From the Archives: March 6, 2018 Why is the dietary supplement industry allowing itself to become worse instead of better at self-policing?  The dietary supplement industry is often

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ICQA Musing

From the Archives: June 26, 2018 The 9th International CoQ10 Conference has concluded. I have to begin by saying I have never been prouder of this category than

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The Amazon marketplace – September 2019 update

From the Archives: October 1, 2019Trust Transparency Center has been following and reporting on the “Amazon Effect” on the dietary supplement industry since March 2017. In that time,

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Trust Transparency Experiences from Hurricane Harvey

From the Archives: :  September 12th, 2017 Shortly after Hurricane Harvey, I shared my perspective on LinkedIn about this catastrophic event from a personal standpoint.  Many lessons, good and

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TrustTransparency and Building An Advisory Board

Now that you understand the value of an advisory board, are you ready to have one? You may think that's an obvious question since you're reading a book

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The Nature of Love and Trust

I love you.I trust you.Are these phrases ever interchangeable? Can love or trust exist without the other? Think about the ways we talk about and experience love. When someone loves

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New supplement retail superhighway could have real potholes

From the Archives: February 21, 2018 Several weeks ago, we wrote about seven regulatory and fundamental compliance areas where emerging brands using the e-tail channel, especially on Amazon,

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The Connection to Trust and Your Bottom Line

The proverbial bottom line was once associated with many strategies, including cutting spending and reducing costs, boosting sales and increasing profits, reducing downtime, and speeding manufacturing, to name

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