UNPA Annual Retreat 2025 Elan shares his observations on the UNPA Annual Retreat: This year’s UNPA Annual Members’ Retreat brought us back to beautiful Asheville, North Carolina, at the nearly incomprehensible Biltmore Estate. Somehow, it felt even more special than it did when we gathered there 11 years ago. On the eve of the one-year […]
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AHPA Botanical Congress
AHPA Botanical Congress 2025 Bryan Fine shared these observations on the AHPA Botanical Congress: Botanical Congress in Cincinnati, Ohio was a great educational and networking experience. This year’s event was unique because it was the first botanical congress not connected to a trade show. That format created a more focused environment for meaningful discussions on […]
SoCal
SoCal Dietary Supplements Consortium SoCal 2025 Regular readers know that Petra is a huge supporter of the SoCal Dietary Supplements Consortium (SCDSC), the partnership between FDA and ASQ FD&C to be a resource for the dietary supplement industry. Here are her thoughts on the recent meeting: “The 2025 Consortium did not disappoint! It was a […]
Herbs & Fungi We’re Watching for 2025
Alkemist Labs Releases “Herbs & Fungi We’re Watching” 2025 Listing 20 Ingredients Requiring Extra Scrutiny Garden Grove, CA (August 14, 2025) –Alkemist Labs has released a list of the botanicals and fungi that most frequently failed identity testing during the first eight months of 2025, naming the botanicals and fungi which should undergo more scrutiny in […]
NBJ Summit Recap
NBJ 2025 Recap from Elan & Petra Elan: Best One Yet (Yes, I say that every year—and I mean it more than ever). Roughly 630 days ago, I stood face-to-face with RFK Jr. for the first time and told him our industry was crying out for a champion. He placed his famously strong hands on […]
NPS Fly in Day
NPA Fly in Day Petra’s Recap: Fly in Day 2025 Last month, I was very honored to participate in NPA’s Fly In Day in Washington DC. This annual legislative advocacy event is an important way to educate elected representatives and their staffers about our industry, and to advocate for American consumers’ supplement access. The event […]
HTPLC Association
HPTLC Association You already know Alkemist Labs is fanatical about botanical HPTLC testing and we were even more so last month as we hosted ~20 of our fellow plant scientists at our facility for the HPTLC Association meeting along with CAMAG Scientific, Inc. The week offered excellent technical presentations by Wilmer Perera and James Kababick, hands […]
WIN Summit
WIN Summit from Petra Never in my career have I had the opportunity to attend an event quite like the inaugural Women In Nutraceuticals Leadership Summit! And really that’s because there has never been a group quite like WIN. What a gift to spend a full day dedicated to thought provoking sessions on developing leadership […]
ICSB Recap
International Conference on the Science of Botanicals ICSB 2025 AT ICSB last month, Khanh Tran, Alkemist HPTLC, R&D Technical Supervisor, presented “Foraging for Methods: The Right HPTLC Method for the Right Specs. She provided this recap: This year’s International Conference on Botanical Science (ICSB) at Oxford, MI saw Anthony, Nick, and me in attendance, and […]
Expo West
Elan’s Expo West 2025 Recap This year’s Natural Products Expo West was amazing and also terrible. Let’s start with the terrible… Just before the show, we lost Michael McGuffin, long time AHPA president. I am deeply grateful to my incredible friend, colleague, mentor, and leader, Michael McGuffin, for shaping a big part of my professional […]