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 […]
Sid Sudberg of Alkemist Labs Honored by AHPA with Herbal Insight Award
Sid Sudberg of Alkemist Labs Honored by AHPA with Herbal Insight Award Garden Grove, CA (March 21, 2024) – At the 2024 AHPA member meeting held in conjunction with Expo West, Alkemist Labs founder, president and CSO was honored with the 2024 AHPA Herbal Insight award, which is bestowed upon individuals or non-commercial organizations that […]