David

Supplement Manufacturing & D2C

[David @makesupps]

@jordanenjoy_ @sweatystartup Not true when done right. Keep temps lower and ph more neutral during manufacturing.

[David @makesupps]

@AaronJNosbisch @drinkbrez Check your DM!

[David @makesupps]

@AaronJNosbisch @drinkbrez Hemp THC same as you

[David @makesupps]

@danavirsarria Might be able to help you.

[David @makesupps]

@MehtabKarta I wonder how many of those founders had partners vs solo founders. A partner that specializes in ops/engineering can help solve 3pl/manufacturing without detracting from growth imo.

[David @makesupps]

@codyplof Quoting tool for new client projects, re-engineer of our PLCs fo bottling line, CRM for sales team

[David @makesupps]

@NotZainAgain @RobertFreundLaw 😂

[David @makesupps]

@RobertFreundLaw Those guys needed to be sued!

[David @makesupps]

@NotZainAgain @RobertFreundLaw It shouldn’t degrade so much once the gummy sets and water activity is low. Degradation happens during cooking. But yeah 10% is good.

[David @makesupps]

@ademylmzr How did you find a manufacturing partner?

[David @makesupps]

@thedanielokon Codex much better for coding imo. I use Claude for UX and design, and have Cowork review web app using browser extension.

[David @makesupps]

@codyplof Never, I thought it was me

[David @makesupps]

Well, Moringa is definitely sourced from overseas there’s no debating that. The majority of dietary ingredients in supplements are. Just like anything else there are good suppliers and bad ones. And the U.S. importers and manufacturers have to do their part, and so do the brands that hire the manufacturers.

[David @makesupps]

First step for the brand is to get serious about quality - necessary for all supplement brands once they reach some minimum level of scale. Vet copackers more carefully and understand the processes behind how their product is manufactured. As a mfg it’s very obvious which brands understand this and which brands do not.

[David @makesupps]

Yes, for sure. The FDA recall includes many different lots, non consecutively numbered potentially suggests they were made at different times or different facilities. At the least the testing was inadequate. It’s possible that this has been happening with Moringa products for years but they were never popular enough to be on radar.

[David @makesupps]

@RBohr84266 @thedanielokon Yes, the copacker should be doing these kinds of tests. But the brand is required by FDA regulation to have their own quality control system as well.

[David @makesupps]

@OpExCoach @thedanielokon I think the DTC guys are incredibly talented, but they tend to be a bit more naive because they don’t have the guardrails of the retail world that require quality controls.

[David @makesupps]

@OpExCoach @thedanielokon Indeed they are not, but my point is that most bulk herbal ingredient supplies are mature enough that this problem has been solved. In the case of Moringa maybe not. I know because I had to solve this problem in the manufacturing of a specific product back in 2018.