By: Kristy Appelhans, MSRA, NMD - Vice President, Global Consumer Safety

At Herbalife Nutrition, theircommitment to qualityis more than cutting-edge technology, infrastructure, and processes; it is at the core of everything they do. One might think that GCS is mainly focused on addressing product inquiries, but they are involved in the entire product life cycle from ideation to labeling, trainings, and education.

For example, they follow a rigorous approach to testing all ingredients that include steps such as:

• Ingredient selection: Before any of their products are available to consumers, they conduct extensive ingredient sourcing and scientific data reviews to ensure they are able to use ingredients from qualified suppliers that will fully deliver on their commitment to product quality, safety, and efficacy.
• Traceability: It is vital to ensure their ingredient source can be fully traced to ensure it meets their quality standards for purity and potency.
• Additional Research: They conduct testing to generate the data needed to inform product development topics such as interactions with other ingredients and contraindications.
• Preventive steps: They review any evidence indicating potential interaction or contraindication with other ingredients that consumers may be using.

他们还与他们的研发和全球监管事务团队紧密合作：

• Ensure that the product is appropriate for the intended consumer populations
• Prevent implications that products should be used for any unintended purpose
• Ensure that labels adequately explain how to use the products correctly

Once they make sure these guardrails are in place, they launch a new product into the market. And once it’s out there, they have a robust, global system in place to quickly address any product inquiries. Their experts not only monitor for adverse events, but if somebody has a product-related question, they also collect and respond to those as a team because it also helps inform our safety picture.

Herbalife Nutrition also carry out non-mandatory research to raise awareness around the safety and efficacy of their products. And then, of course, post-market, they might find opportunities to dive deeper into research and then publish those findings to help build brand confidence. That kind of research is peer-reviewed, and they have third-party validation that continues to tell their story of trust, safety, and quality.

他们想表明的是，他们的全球消费者安全方法建立在普遍，广泛的质量上：Seed to Feed process, to manufacturing, toquality certifications, to independent research. And, of course, education and training play a big part in all of it.

阅读更多here. This article was originally published onIAmHerbalifeNutrition.com.

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