A supplement panel is a legal document written to a format. Once you can read one, most of the marketing around it stops working, and that is what these posts are for. They are about labels rather than about promises, because a label is the one part of a supplement that has rules attached to it.
Each post works its example on this product rather than on somebody else's. The panel post is about a panel this product does not have. The reference-marks post is about the dagger on our own front label. The artwork post counts our own brand's ingredient photographs against its own ingredient list.
Every post carries a visible last-updated date, a byline from the editorial desk rather than an invented author, and links to the sources we actually opened. Where a study found nothing, we say so, including when the ingredient is one of ours.
What each post covers
The one document that makes a supplement checkable. What 21 CFR 101.36 actually requires on a Supplement Facts panel, what each line is for, what a reader can do with it in thirty seconds, and what is left when the panel is missing.
A dagger, an asterisk and a footnote. The three reference marks that appear on supplement packaging, what each one conventionally points at, why they are not interchangeable, and what it means when one has no destination.
Pictures are not ingredients. Why ingredient photography is the most persuasive and least regulated part of a supplement listing, how to count artwork against a declared ingredient list, and what our own brand's asset pack shows when you do it.
How topics get chosen
From questions that arrive at the desk. If the same thing is asked three times, it becomes a post. That is a slower schedule than most brand blogs run on, and it is the reason there are three posts here rather than thirty thin ones written to a keyword list.
Nothing on this blog is written to rank for a search term the desk does not understand. Every post is long because the subjects are, and every one of them says plainly where the evidence for our own product stops.
Every post is bylined to the editorial desk that writes the product pages, which matters because it means the person explaining that this product has no Supplement Facts panel is the same person writing the page with the buy button on it.
If there is something you want covered, email [email protected]. The posts that get written are usually the ones somebody asked for.