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SupplySide West Podcast 21: How Not to Make a Dietary Supplement
One out of four products tested by consumerlab.com hasn't passed its tests for quality, according to Lisa Sabin, vice president of business development at ConsumerLab. Herbal products is the category with the most failures (42 percent failure rate), followed by nutritionals (powders, bars, greens, green tea, etc.; 25 percent failure rate), vitamins and minerals (21 percent), and other supplements (CoQ10, omega-3, probiotics, etc.; 19 percent). However, brands can increase their success rates by reviewing their ingredient claims, identity testing procedures and contamination levels.
One out of four products tested by consumerlab.com hasn’t passed its tests for quality, according to Lisa Sabin, vice president of business development at ConsumerLab. Herbal products is the category with the most failures (42 percent failure rate), followed by nutritionals (powders, bars, greens, green tea, etc.; 25 percent failure rate), vitamins and minerals (21 percent), and other supplements (CoQ10, omega-3s, probiotics, etc.; 19 percent).
However, brands can increase their success rates by reviewing their ingredient claims, identity testing procedures and contamination levels.
In this episode, Sabin and Sandy Almendarez, editor in chief, INSIDER, discuss:
Consumerlabs’ testing methods and how it chooses the supplements it tests
Which product categories are improving their compliance rates, and which are consistently falling short
The unexpected ingredient found in many curcumin spices
Sabin presented “How Not to Make a Dietary Supplement: Lessons From 17 Years of Testing by Consumerlab.com” at SupplySide West as part of the workshop “Contract Manufacturing: Raising the Bar on Delivering Quality.” Learn more from speakers from this session in these INSIDER assets:
Digital Magazine: Contract Manufacturing Insights
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