SupplySide West Recap 2024 from Petra Erlandson I know you must be asking yourself right now, wow, I wonder what Petra thought of this year’s

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,

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

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

ICSB Recap By Bryan Fine Attending the International Conference on the Science of Botanicals was an enriching and fulfilling experience. From the informative presentations and

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

Spotlight on True Grace True Grace enthusiastically joined the Alkemist Assured program soon after we launched it. Jennifer Weinhardt, Sr. Director of R&D for True

2022 was the Dress Rehearsal for 2023: Elan reflects upon the past, and looks ahead By Elan Sudberg In the wake of three mostly aberrant

Why Alkemist Supports Women In Nutraceuticals (WIN) By Elan Sudberg While my collection of industry besties is majority women, unfortunately their ratio in the industry

Petra’s SupplySide West Reflections The energy at SSW was great this year!  With attendance back up to near-normal levels, the show floor was buzzing and

Alkemist Assured FAQs by Bryan Fine You’ve seen the word transparency countless times in industry marketing material.  Telling your customers you are transparent is one

NBJ Summit is always one of my favorite industry events and I was so pleased to be there in person this year. I can truly say that I enjoy it not just for the amazing education and keynote speakers but also for the time to reconnect in person with partners and colleagues who have become true friends over my 16 years in this industry.

Looking Back By Sid Sudberg In 1997, my son, Elan, and I created Alkemist Labs after I attended a couple of FDA classes in botanical