Stopping adulteration at the source: tainted ingredients
COAs may not tell the truth about ingredients, but instrumentation does
NOW Foods (Bloomingdale, IL) wanted to attack the issue of adulterated food with unparalleled vigor. The company, which has built a reputation for producing high-quality nutrition supplements for health-conscious customers since 1962, needed to mitigate risk for the retailers who sell their products and the consumers who trust the brand.
“For our industry, it seemed the mindset was that everyone knew adulteration was a problem, but the hope was that it would just never happen to them,” says Katrina Emmel, an analytical scientist at NOW Foods. “But we wanted to take a leadership role on this issue. We wanted to know for a fact that this wouldn’t happen to us.”