{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Don't Eat Poop! A Food Safety Podcast","title":"Welcome to Area 51: Supplements, Claims, and the Product Safety Nobody Validates | Episode 191","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/c8d33ebc\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1654,"description":"Welcome to Area 51: Supplements, Claims, and the Product Safety Nobody Validates | Episode 191\n\nA company gets caught. A new LLC shows up in Suite 108, and Suite 107 quietly stays open as the “warehouse.” Welcome to Area 51 of product safety, the place that officially doesn’t exist.\nRecorded live at the Food Safety Consortium, this episode features Trevor Morones, president and chief quality officer of Control Point Holdings. He talks with Francine and Matt about supplement claims, unpermitted operations, process authorities, and why leadership has to show up at every level. Spoiler alert: if you can’t validate it and keep verifying it, you can’t claim it, no matter how good it looks on Instagram.\nIn this episode:\n💩 Cold open: Suite 107, Suite 108, and Area 51\n💩 Meet Trevor Morones and Control Point Holdings\n💩 Product safety starts with one question: “Who’s your team?”\n💩 Supplement claims and the FDA’s attention\n💩 Probiotics: the count at what point?\n💩 New LLCs, unpermitted spaces, and coffee roasters who think they’re exempt\n💩 Mom, Instagram, and mushroom supplements\n💩 Drug interactions, heavy metals, and supply chain verification\n💩 Becoming a process authority under 9 CFR\n💩 Cosmetics, serums, snail secretions, and collagen\n💩 Meeting Dr. Darren Detwiler and the Thought Leader Product Safety Innovation Summit\n💩 The four A’s and how to join the Control Point community\n💩 Seek and Destroy: a Listeria tabletop exercise with a cybersecurity twist\n💩 Food and cannabis under one roof at the Food Safety Consortium\n💩 What conferences need more of: leadership at every level\n \nDisclaimer: Episode title and content do not constitute legal or health advice.\nResources from this episode\nControl Point Holdings\nNoteworthy quotes from this episode\n\n“It’s important that operations don’t try to market something they can’t actually validate. We have to validate and then continue to verify something.” – Trevor Morones\n“If we’re trying to provide supplements to people for health and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/I2EDo-ExonCZl2fSuvdGhc-brszaguY36XczjzRgFXI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM4MzcyLzE2NzUy/ODUwMDYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}