Comment · Sat, February 22, 2020
⚠️🔬 Recent Industry Recalls and Safety Notices 🔬⚠️
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MisterYouAreSoDumb · 157 points
Many of our customers have been receiving emails from Amazon and other retailers/marketplaces discussing an important product safety notification. This safety notification is in regards to a nationwide recall from a large contract manufacturer in Edgewood New York. This company went by a few names: ABH Nature, ABH Pharma, and Stocknutra. Some of the brands this manufacturer made products for were direct competitors of ours for things like palmitoylethanolamide and ashwagandha. In fact, over 850 brands were affected by this recall for all products going back 6 years. This is a very serious recall that only happens with repeated and flagrant violations of cGMP guidelines. It is by no means a small or common occurrence for a recall as extensive as this to happen. Occurrences like this are why we at Nootropics Depot got into this industry in the first place. People need to be able to trust what they are putting into their bodies. This is why we have built our own state-of-the-art analytical testing lab, and have completely designed our production, testing, and quality control systems from the ground up. The industry standard is just not good enough. If it was, and if the existing comp…
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mycelium-ministries · 2 points
Thanks. I do have a quick question: Obviously many nootropics, well supplements in general are sourced from China. Why? I mean I know its cheaper, but what are there obstacles (fed/state/local) which make it unreasonable to manufacture supplements here?
Thanks again, I have been very satisfied with all of your products!
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
We manufacture everything here in Phoenix Arizona. If you mean synthesis, that's not feasible here in the US. The facilities just don't exist. Even if price wasn't an issue, I would not be able to get everything made here. China is just very vertically integrated and have cornered the synthesis market.
That being said, we do not get everything from China; natural extracts and patented products in particular. We source from all over the world. We are using India a lot for the Ayurvedic extracts. That's where they originated, after all. We have suppliers in the US, Australia, Canada, the UK, Italy, France, Norway, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Denmark, South Africa, and Argentina. These are generally extracts. However, we are very close to moving some of our synthesis to the EU and India! That's been a project we have been working on for a while. We are also in the initial stages of setting up some of our own grow operations in the United States. So that's super exciting! Even so, completely replacing China is likely never going to happen. We will always have to use them for at least some things. They just have the infrastructure there that does not exist elsewhere at the moment, and they have very skilled synthetic chemists. We are shifting to other countries where we can, though.