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Scientific and clinical

Supplement claims you can defend

We document the evidence for your claims, review your label and design studies to test new claims.

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01  Claims and documentation

The documents behind your claims

  • Scientific dossier

    We review the evidence for your ingredients and claims.

    Includes

    • Mechanism rationale
    • Dose justification
    • Safety summary
    • Claims substantiation map
    • Full reference list
  • Label and claims review

    We review your label before it goes to print.

    Includes

    • Supplement Facts panel and ingredient statement
    • Structure/function claim screen
    • Disclaimer and allergen check
    • Help preparing the 30-day FDA notification
    • Label review memo
  • Testing program design

    We plan the tests your product needs before its first production run.

    Includes

    • Test plan: identity, potency, microbiology, heavy metals and stability
    • Partner lab selection
    • Sample logistics
    • Results review memo
  • Quality management support

    We keep your quality files current while your product is in production.

    Includes

    • Supplier qualification files
    • Certificate of analysis (COA) review
    • Complaint and deviation support
    • Change control records
    • Audit preparation

02  Standards

Competent and reliable scientific evidence

We build every dossier to this Federal Trade Commission standard and state the strength of evidence for each claim.

What your brand owns

The label, its claims and the FDA notification. You and your counsel approve the final copy.

03  Clinical studies

Studies that test a claim before you make it

  • Clinical study design

    We design a structure/function study and prepare it for Institutional Review Board (IRB) submission.

    Includes

    • Protocol and endpoints
    • Sample size rationale
    • Choice of a decentralized clinical platform or a contract research organization (CRO)
    • Claims the study could support
  • Principal Investigator services

    Brandon Sojka serves as Principal Investigator of record.

    Includes

    • IRB submission and correspondence
    • Informed consent materials
    • Oversight of conduct and data
    • Adverse event review with the physician sub-investigator
    • ClinicalTrials.gov registration support
    • Sign-off on the final dataset
  • Final study report and manuscript draft

    We report the results and state which marketing claims they support.

    Includes

    • Results of the prespecified analysis
    • Claims memo
    • Manuscript draft for a peer-reviewed journal

04  Study standards

How every study runs

  1. 01ProtocolPrimary endpoint and analysis set in advance
  2. 02IRB approvalNo enrollment before IRB approval
  3. 03RegistrationOn ClinicalTrials.gov before enrollment
  4. 04Blinded runRandomized and blinded by the platform or CRO
  5. 05AnalysisPrimary analysis by an independent statistician
  1. 01ProtocolPrimary endpoint and analysis set in advance
  2. 02IRB approvalNo enrollment before IRB approval
  3. 03RegistrationOn ClinicalTrials.gov before enrollment
  4. 04Blinded runRandomized and blinded by the platform or CRO
  5. 05AnalysisPrimary analysis by an independent statistician
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  • Studies with a disease endpoint declined or referred
  • A physician sub-investigator on every study
  • Your brand as sponsor of record and owner of the data
  • Financial interests disclosed to the IRB on every study

Start with a short application

  1. 01ApplicationAbout five minutes
  2. 02Your resultShown right away
  3. 03Introductory call30 minutes, when your project fits