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 […]
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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 […]
Somato™: A Breakthrough in Natural Sleep Support, Now Alkemist Assured™
Somato™: A Breakthrough in Natural Sleep Support, Now Alkemist Assured™ Irvine, CA (December 19, 2024) – Nutraland USA is proud to announce that its groundbreaking ingredient, Somato™, the world’s first whole-food-derived phytomelatonin from tomatoes, is now Alkemist Assured™ through Alkemist Labs’ quality transparency program. The Alkemist Assured designation is a mark of excellence, awarded only […]
Year in Perspective
2024 Reflections from Elan Looking Back, Looking Forward Do you suffer from neck pain? I do. My massage therapist friends and my father, who is a retired chiropractor, believe it’s because I took up Jiu-Jitsu early in 2024. Considering I’m 45, have never played a contact sport, let alone a combat sport, and regularly get […]
Herbs & Fungi We’re Watching for the Second Half of 2024
Alkemist Labs Releases List Of “Herbs & Fungi We’re Watching” for Second Half of 2024 Naming 20 Ingredients Requiring Extra Scrutiny Garden Grove, CA (December 17, 2024) – Alkemist Labs has released a list of the botanicals and fungi that most frequently failed identity testing during the second half of 2024. This information is valuable […]
Elan’s Super-Biased Quality Index
Elan’s Super-Biased Quality Index There’s this hilarious myth floating around that the dietary supplement industry is unregulated. Spoiler alert: it’s not true. I’ve been shouting this from the LinkedIn rooftops so much that my voice is starting to sound like RFK Jr’s. As someone who can identify roots (and all other plant and fungal parts) […]
Alkemist Labs Perspective on Mushroom Test Methods
Alkemist Labs Offers Perspective on Mushroom Test Methods Garden Grove, CA (November 19, 2024) – Alkemist Labs, the industry leader in botanical and fungi testing, has a history of providing clarity to testing controversies. Today, the company offers perspective on the confusion about mushroom test methods, engendered by some labs marketing claims, which Alkemist’s top scientist […]