2025 Reflections from Elan 2024 was about momentum. We expanded services, hit new highs, reorganized for scale, and turned quality transparency from an idea into

SupplySide West Recap Elan Sudberg: Reflections on the 2025 SupplySide Global Trade Show I hit the road at dawn to make it to the all-day American

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,

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

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

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

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

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

Our HPTLC Supervisor Khanh Tran offers this recap from the AOAC annual meeting in Baltimore last month: Is it cold in here… or it just

Hear from our New COO Reena Gordon Reena Gordon began working with Alkemist Labs on a consulting capacity last spring, and after a few months,

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,

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

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

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

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

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

Elan’s Reflections on 2023 By Elan Sudberg A new year is upon us, which means once again I take a snippet of time to reflect

Alkemist Labs Announces New Participants and Products in Alkemist Assured™ Transparency Program Garden Grove, CA (November 30, 2023) –The Alkemist Labs Alkemist Assured™ testing transparency program

SSW 2023 Recap Elan’s SSW Reflections SSW23 was the best SSW ever. I think I have said that every year, as the show keeps getting

ASQ 2023 Recap Elan and Petra attended and Alkemist sponsored the 7th Annual SoCal Dietary Supplement Consortium last month which brought together industry experts and

AOAC Annual Meeting 2023 Recap By Anthony Fontana Ph.D., Lab Director I attended the AOAC Annual Meeting & Exposition held from August 26th to 30th

Travel Maniacs We have been traveling a lot lately! Alkemites participated in three significant industry events in June: the UNPA Member Retreat, the new Mushroom

FTIR and FDA Warning Letters By Elan Sudberg One of the hardest things I have ever done in my life was to earn a degree

A Few of Petra’s Favorite Things…About Expo When your feet hurt, when in long lines, when your feeling tired… simply remember your favorite things!  I

Even More Transparency!!! by Elan Believe it or not, while the seeds of transparency I planted ~8 years ago have only recently sprouted and are slowly growing into an