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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astrae_research · 5 points
Do you expect any short and long-term changes in your supply chain given the Covid-19 situation? I have several suppliers still on break.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Absolutely. It has already been happening for a while. We ran out of scales because our manufacturer was not allowed to go back to their facility to finish our production and ship them out. Since it happened during Chinese New Year, we were pretty prepared for most other things, though. We always plan for supply chain issues around the lunar new year. COVID-19 just extended it and made it worse. With it being worse than everyone is talking about, it could start to have drastic effects on the entire supply chain of the US soon. Over 50% of all Chinese people are still in quarantine, and some are saying that the government may not let them reopen their facilities till JUNE! If that happens, you can bet it will cause a worldwide recession. Companies can plan for 1-3 months. Nobody out there has a supply enough to last 6; at least nobody with any real sales volume or sense of overhead costs.
We were fortunate to already be in the process of shifting our supply chain to other countries, though. So we are a little ahead of the game. If push comes to shove, we should be able to pivot. Cost will go up, but in that scenario everyone goes completely out of stock. That's not far off for some of the big products out there, to be honest. I predict in the next 1-2 months you are going to start seeing many vendors go out of stock on a lot of things. If the situation is as bad as some insiders have been telling us, this will get pretty ugly. I hope it doesn't, but we are preparing for it.