NBJ 2024 Recap from Petra Last month Elan, Bryan, and I attended the 2024 NBJ Summit at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, CA. This event has become a highlight of my summer, always held in a beautiful place with thought-provoking speakers. It not only educates and inspires but also renews and refreshes. The State […]
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Choosing a Lab – Interview
How to Choose a Lab Content Piece Interview with Elan Where did this idea come from? In full transparency, which is kind of my thing, the idea was birthed as a gorilla marketing campaign to combat a particular lab doing harm to our industry. It was a subversive way to call them out without getting […]
Vetting Third Party Testing Labs
Alkemist Labs Releases Guidance Document on Vetting Third Party Testing Labs Garden Grove, CA (August 13, 2024) – Alkemist Labs has developed a guidance document to help the industry choose third party testing labs, filling an information gap in the industry. Partnering with contract labs is a key part of meeting regulatory requirements for many brands […]
DSHEA Summit Recap
DSHEA Summit Recap Nick Crowning, Business Development Manager, attended the DSHEA Summit in early June and shares this assessment: It was an honor to join some our industry’s founding members in Salt Lake City to discuss the past, present, and future of DSHEA. A special thanks to Stephen Daniells and NutraIngredients-USA for putting this gathering […]
We Effing Told You So
We Effing Told You So By Elan Sudberg Early in my career, I attended a few seminars with the great executive coach Marshal Goldsmith. Among many things, he preached to us future leaders the social importance NOT to always prove we are right (leaving a tiny room for proving we were right sometimes). And so, […]
Herbs & Fungi We’re Watching for First Half of 2024
Alkemist Labs Releases List Of “Herbs & Fungi We’re Watching” for First Half of 2024 Naming 20 Ingredients Requiring Extra Scrutiny Garden Grove, CA (June 13, 2024) –Alkemist Labs has released a list of the botanicals and fungi that most frequently failed identity testing during the first half of 2024. As the companies that test with Alkemist […]
Mushroom Summit
Mushroom Summit Recap Nick Crowning shares his recollections of the Mushroom Summit, which he and Sid Sudberg attended in Monterey, California last week. Sidney and I had the pleasure to attend the Mushroom Summit in Monterey CA. It was great to see familiar faces from last year as well as many new attendees. One of […]
Sid Sudberg AHPA Herbal Insight Award Speech
Sid’s AHPA Herbal Insights Award Acceptance Speech Well, good morning, everyone and thank you very much. I had three different speeches written but I’m just going to kind of wing it here only using a few notes. What I wanted to tell you is a little bit about the history of what we’ve done, where […]
Pittcon and Psychedelics
Pittcon and Psychedelics Notes from our lab director Anthony Fontana PhD: Pittcon, celebrating 75 years, is an international conference focusing on laboratory science. Alkemist was invited to present our ISO-17025 validated psychedelic method at Pittcon 2024 conference February 27-29th in San Diego, CA. For the first time the Pittcon organizers included two psychedelic symposium sessions: […]
Expo West 2024 Recap
Expo West Reflections from Petra and Elan Elan: Between reconnecting with some of my favorite people on this planet, getting stuff done at AHPA board meetings and watching my excellent sales team do what they do best, I think I have said this out loud at least 26 times before, but this latest Expo West […]