Supplements 101: An exploration of dietary supplement foundations - video

Watch supplement industry veterans as they dispense knowledge, insights and wisdom during SupplySide West 2024. Price $75.

Todd Runestad, Content Director, SupplySideSJ.com

November 12, 2024

1h 59m View

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At a Glance

Learn legal & regulatory basics.
Explore the product development journey.
See how collaboration can supercharge your career.

If you’re new to the industry, or in a new role, you need to know certain foundational truths to get you up to speed. There are key acronyms, like DSHEA and NBJ, as well as best practices to elude regulatory sanction or legal class action suits. There are formulation practices that savvy and innovative brands make a key part of their success, ingredient sourcing foundations to abide by, and valuable practices that happen outside the bottle like trade group memberships, certifications and marketing insights. You’ll learn it all at this session from SupplySide West 2024.

Timeline

0:00:00-0:04:20 – Introduction, Karen Butler, senior managing editor, SupplySide Journals

0:04:20–0:30:08 - NBJ market overview: Supplement consumers, sales and trends: Erika Craft, market research analyst, Nutrition Business Journal

0:30:08–0:53:20 - Legal & regulatory basics + key acronyms/terms: Anastasia Jones, regulatory affairs director, Olly

0:53:20-01:17:40 - Product development/formulation, delivery systems, ingredient sourcing and contract manufacturing: Lauren Clardy, president & founder, NutriMarket Business

1:17:40-1:34:00 - The importance (and extent!) of industry collaboration, certifications and label claims: Lisa Thomas, chief commercialization officer, Nuberbs

1:34:00-1:58:30 – Q&A

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About the Author

Todd Runestad

Todd Runestad

Content Director, SupplySideSJ.com, SupplySide Supplement Journal

Todd Runestad has been writing on nutrition science news since 1997. He is content director for SupplySide Supplement Journal and its digital magazines. Other incarnations: content director for Natural Products Insider (now rebranded to SupplySide Supplement Journal), supplements editor for NewHope.com, Delicious Living!, and Natural Foods Merchandiser. Former editor-in-chief of Functional Ingredients magazine and still covers raw material innovations and ingredient science.

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Specialty

Todd writes about nutrition science news such as this story on mitochondrial nutrients, innovative ingredients such as this story about 12 trendy new ingredient launches from SupplySide West 2023, and is a judge for the NEXTY awards honoring innovation, integrity and inspiration in natural products including his specialty — dietary supplements. He extensively covered the rise and rise and rise and fall of cannabis hemp CBD. He helps produce in-person events at SupplySide West and SupplySide East trade shows and conferences, including the wildly popular Ingredient Idol game show, as well as Natural Products Expo West and Natural Products Expo East and the NBJ Summit. He was a board member for the Hemp Industries Association.

Education / Past Lives

In previous lives Todd was on the other side of nature from natural products — natural history — as managing editor at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He's sojourned to Burning Man and Mount Everest. He graduated many moons ago from the State University of New York College at Oneonta.

Quotes

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"Cannabis is nature's most nearly perfect plant."

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