Alkemist Labs Announces Four Verdure Ingredients Pass Required Testing, Qualified to Use Alkemist Assured Seal Garden Grove, CA (June 19, 2023) –Alkemist Labs announces that Verdure Sciences®, one of the first ingredient suppliers to commit to the Alkemist Assured™ testing transparency program, now has several ingredients under the program’s quality seal: Ashwagandha Extract Powder (Withania […]
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Method for Psychedelics Derived from Plants and Fungi
Alkemist Labs has developed and validated an analytical method to determine amounts of psychoactives in plant and fungi materials. The method covers fungus and plant raw materials, extracts, processed material, as well as finished product forms.
Expo West 2022 Recap
Elan’s Expo West Recap Congratulations to the amazing team at Informa Markets and New Hope! Natural Products Expo West was a hit, and I didn’t catch Covid. In all seriousness, I do appreciate the delicate balance they offered in their efforts to keep us all safe. Many from the industry cautiously attended Supply Side in […]
Alkemist Labs Expands Capabilities to Include Heavy Metals and Pesticides Testing
Garden Grove, CA (June 15, 2021) – Alkemist Labs has now added purity testing to their suite of services, alongside identity, potency, and hemp testing.
SSW 2021 Recap from Elan
To say that ‘it was good show’ would be an understatement as SSW 2021 might go down in the history books as one of the best trade shows of the decade. While the NBJ Summit was terrific, really terrific and CRN annual meeting amazing, truly amazing, nothing beats the Las Vegas energy coupled with the […]
Alkemist Labs Wins Two TINYawards Highlighting Positive Culture and Happy Staff
Alkemist Labs Wins Two TINYawards Highlighting Positive Culture and Happy Staff Garden Grove, CA (June 15, 2021) – Alkemist Labs is very pleased to have received two TINYawards, confirming that the company is listening to their employees and creating a healthy, happy work environment. The TINYawards are an annual, global award to recognize organizations putting forth […]
Alkemist Wins Nutritional Outlook 2020 Best of Industry Award
Nutritional Outlook’s 2020 Best of the Industry Awards, Service Provider: Alkemist Labs The boutique, family-owned laboratory has taken on industry Goliaths, powered by “tenacity, foresight, and a little crazy.” When discussing the success of Alkemist Labs (Garden Grove, CA), its CEO Elan Sudberg likes to invoke the Old Testament story of David and Goliath, driving […]
Dry Reporting
Alkemist Labs Issues Warning to Industry on “Dry Reporting” Doctored Certificates of Analysis Being Used to Market Material Not Actually Tested, a Legally Actionable Practice Garden Grove, CA (May 13, 2020) – Alkemist Labs has found some ingredient suppliers and marketing companies have been altering valid lab reports and using those falsified reports to promote […]
Elan’s 2020 Industry Resolutions
Elan’s 2020 Industry Resolutions A new year is often a time of reflection, and many people make New Year’s Resolutions, which they may or may not keep, with varying degrees of success. Simply, put, they generally fall into four categories: Start Stop Decrease Increase So here are my 2020 resolutions recommendations for our industry: The […]
Elan’s recap 2019 and forecast 2020
Looking back, Looking Forward While it won’t go down in the archives as our best one, 2019 was almost a really great year. The industry, and our little lab, experienced some challenging growing pains, along with some very real successes. As we enter the new year, it’s good to review the closing one, and go […]