Natural Product Consultants for Food, Supplements, Ingredients, and Botanicals

NaturPro Scientific understands natural products from seed to shelf.

Natural products are not simple. A dietary supplement is not just a formula. A botanical extract is not just a plant name.

A functional food is not just a flavor system. A supplier document is not proof by itself.

A certificate of analysis is not a quality system. And a product claim is not compliant just because competitors are using it.

NaturPro Scientific helps companies develop, review, source, manufacture, test, label, substantiate, and improve natural products with practical scientific, regulatory, quality, and commercial judgment.

We serve as independent natural product consultants for food, dietary supplements, ingredients, functional foods, botanicals, hemp, cannabis, pet supplements, cosmetics, and related consumer products.

Our work spans product development, quality assurance, GMP compliance, FSMA, FSVP, supplier qualification, ingredient sourcing, formula review, label development, claims review, laboratory testing strategy, and technical marketing.

Independent Consulting for the Natural Products Industry

NaturPro Scientific is not a contract manufacturer. We are not a testing lab, and we don’t own manufacturing facilities.

So we don’t push clients toward one supplier, laboratory, ingredient, manufacturer, or product model because of a hidden financial interest.

Our job is to help clients ask better questions, see risk earlier, and make better decisions.

Sometimes that means helping move a product forward. Sometimes it means slowing the project down.

Sometimes that us, saying the formula, label, supplier, claim, or testing plan is not ready yet.

That’s all part of our job.

Natural products need more than enthusiasm. They need evidence, quality systems, regulatory judgment, supplier verification, product testing, and practical manufacturing awareness.

Experience Across the Natural Products Supply Chain

NaturPro Scientific has supported more than 250 companies, including startups, ingredient suppliers, contract manufacturers, consumer brands, retailers, distributors, investors, and publicly traded multinational companies.

Our work represents a footprint of more than 1,000 consumer products sold in more than 70 countries.

Our experience includes work across:

• Dietary supplements
• Functional foods
• Conventional foods
• Beverages
• Dietary ingredients
• Botanical extracts
• Whole herbs and tea-cut herbs
• Wildcrafted herbs
• Food ingredients
• Food additives
• GRAS ingredients
• Natural health products
• Medical foods
• Pet supplements
• Cosmetics and skincare
• Hemp and cannabis products
• Botanical drug and investigational product support
• Natural product OTC and API-related projects
• Phytochemicals and reference standards
• Specialty ingredients and branded ingredients

We understand the technical, regulatory, quality, sourcing, testing, manufacturing, and commercial realities that shape natural product success.

Product Types and Technologies We Support

NaturPro Scientific works across a wide range of natural product technologies and dosage forms, including:

• Agricultural products
• Botanicals
• Botanical extracts
• Standardized extracts
• Powders
• Oils
• Lipids
• Emulsions
• Dispersions
• Water-soluble ingredients
• Capsules
• Tablets
• Gummies
• Softgels
• Tinctures
• Shots
• Beverages
• Functional foods
• Proteins
• Carbohydrates
• Minerals
• Vitamins
• Probiotics
• Yeast and microorganisms
• Essential oils
• Pet supplement formats
• Topical and transdermal formats
• Specialty delivery systems
• Raw materials
• Finished products
• Packaging and label systems

We help clients evaluate whether a product can be formulated, manufactured, tested, labeled, substantiated, sourced, scaled, and defended.

Because a product that looks good in a concept deck may still fail in the real world.

Dietary Supplement Consulting

NaturPro Scientific provides consulting support for dietary supplement companies at every stage of product development and commercialization.

Our dietary supplement consulting services may include:

• Product concept review
• Formula review
• Formula readiness assessment
• Ingredient review
• Supplement Facts development
• Label review
• Claims review
• Structure/function claim support
• Claims substantiation review
• Warning and directions review
• GMP compliance support
• Product testing strategy
• Finished product specification review
• Manufacturer selection support
• Supplier qualification
• Product launch support
• Post-launch troubleshooting

We help clients understand what is technically possible, what is regulatory risky, what is quality-relevant, and what needs to be addressed before launch.

Food and Functional Food Consulting

NaturPro Scientific supports companies developing conventional foods, functional foods, beverages, meal replacements, powders, drink mixes, bars, shots, and specialty food ingredients.

Food and functional food projects may involve:

• Ingredient review
• Formula feasibility
• GRAS and food additive considerations
• Label review
• Claims risk assessment
• Allergen considerations
• Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts questions
• FSMA and preventive controls considerations
• Manufacturing feasibility
• Product testing
• Shelf-life and stability planning
• Supplier documentation review
• Technical marketing support

Food products often sit at the intersection of flavor, function, formulation, regulation, and manufacturing.

We help clients connect those dots before the product reaches the market.

Ingredient and Supplier Consulting

Ingredient quality starts long before a finished product is made.

NaturPro Scientific helps clients evaluate ingredients, suppliers, documentation, specifications, certificates of analysis, test methods, traceability, and quality risks.

Our ingredient and supplier consulting services may include:

• Ingredient sourcing support
• Supplier identification
• Supplier qualification
• Supplier documentation review
• Raw material specification review
• COA review
• Test method review
• Botanical identity review
• Adulteration risk review
• Country of origin and traceability review
• Contaminant risk assessment
• GMP documentation review
• Quality agreement support
• Supplier verification support
• Foreign Supplier Verification Program support

We do not ask only whether an ingredient is available.

We ask whether it can be defended.

Botanical Consulting

Botanicals create unique challenges.

Plant identity, plant part, extraction method, solvent system, standardization, marker compounds, adulteration risk, seasonal variation, country of origin, contaminant profile, and clinical relevance all matter.

NaturPro Scientific provides botanical consulting support for brands, suppliers, manufacturers, and ingredient companies working with herbs, extracts, powders, wildcrafted materials, and specialty botanicals.

Botanical consulting may include:

• Botanical identity review
• Plant part confirmation
• Extract ratio review
• Standardization review
• Marker compound review
• Testing strategy
• Adulteration risk review
• Supplier documentation review
• Traditional use and scientific literature review
• Claims and substantiation review
• Specification development
• Traceability review
• Quality and sourcing risk assessment

A botanical is not just a Latin binomial.

It is a supply chain, a chemistry profile, a quality system, and a product story.

GMP, Quality Assurance, and Regulatory Support

NaturPro Scientific provides quality assurance and regulatory consulting for dietary supplement, food, ingredient, botanical, hemp, cannabis, and natural product companies.

Our experience includes support for FDA Form 483 inspection reports, Warning Letters, import detentions, product recalls, supplier qualification programs, internal audits, GMP gap assessments, SOP development, laboratory testing strategy, and quality system improvement.

Quality and regulatory support may include:

• 21 CFR 111 dietary supplement GMP support
• 21 CFR 117 food GMP and preventive controls support
• FSMA consulting
• FSVP consulting
• PCQI-informed food safety plan review
• Supplier qualification programs
• SOP development
• Internal audits
• GMP gap assessments
• FDA inspection readiness
• Corrective action support
• Product specification development
• Raw material specification development
• Laboratory and method qualification
• COA review
• Quality agreement support

Quality is not paperwork.

Quality is whether the system catches problems before customers, regulators, or competitors do.

Claims, Labeling, and Substantiation

Natural product claims need to be clear, compelling, and supportable.

NaturPro Scientific helps clients review labels, Supplement Facts panels, ingredient statements, structure/function claims, product descriptions, websites, marketing copy, and technical substantiation.

Claims and labeling consulting may include:

• Label review
• Supplement Facts review
• Nutrition Facts review
• Ingredient declaration review
• Claims risk assessment
• Structure/function claims review
• Implied disease claim review
• Technical marketing dossier support
• Scientific literature review
• Claims substantiation review
• Warning and caution statement review
• Product positioning recommendations

The goal is not to make products boring.

The goal is to make claims that hold water.

Product Development and R&D Support

NaturPro Scientific supports natural product development from early concept through commercialization.

Our product development experience includes work on botanical extracts, standardized ingredients, finished supplements, functional foods, beverages, solid-lipid particle systems, proteins, sports nutrition products, pet supplements, probiotics, and specialty ingredients.

R&D and product development services may include:

• Concept review
• Competitive analysis
• Formula development support
• Formula feasibility review
• Ingredient selection
• Dose rationale
• Prototype review
• Manufacturing scale-up support
• Clinical research planning
• Literature review
• Product testing strategy
• Technical dossier development
• Commercial positioning support

NaturPro Scientific has led or supported development of products with more than $700 million in total lifetime sales.

Our experience is important, because product development is not just what goes into the bottle.

It’s what survives manufacturing, testing, labeling, compliance, substantiation, retail scrutiny, and consumer use.

Laboratory and Testing Strategy

Testing is one of the most misunderstood parts of natural product development.

The right test depends on the ingredient, product format, matrix, claim, specification, hazard, method, laboratory capability, and regulatory context.

NaturPro Scientific supports clients with:

• Testing plan development
• Laboratory selection support
• Method review
• Method qualification
• COA review
• Specification review
• Identity testing strategy
• Potency testing strategy
• Contaminant testing strategy
• Botanical testing strategy
• Microbial testing review
• Heavy metal testing review
• Pesticide and residual solvent testing review
• Troubleshooting unexpected test results

A lab result is only useful if the method, matrix, specification, and interpretation make sense.

Hemp and Cannabis Consulting

NaturPro Scientific has supported hemp and cannabis clients in more than 15 states, including work related to extraction, formulation, production, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, SOPs, laboratory testing, GMP alignment, and operational standards.

Our hemp and cannabis consulting experience includes:

• Extraction and purification process support
• SOP development
• Training program development
• Product formulation
• Quality system support
• Analytical testing standards
• Laboratory gap assessments
• ISO 17025-related laboratory review
• GMP support
• Technical and regulatory guidance
• Standards committee participation

NaturPro has participated in ASTM International D37, U.S. Hemp Roundtable technical work, and American Herbal Products Association cannabis and hemp-related committees.

Scientific Communication and Technical Marketing

NaturPro Scientific helps companies communicate science clearly and responsibly.

Blake Ebersole has authored or contributed to hundreds of technical and marketing communications, including more than 80 trade press articles.

Technical communication services may include:

• White papers
• Technical dossiers
• Sales sheets
• Website copy
• Product education materials
• Scientific summaries
• Training presentations
• Webinars
• Press release review
• Technical marketing review
• Claims-support content
• Ingredient education
• Retailer and practitioner education

Good science still needs to be understandable.

Bad science dressed up as marketing is still bad science.

Expert Review and Industry Leadership

NaturPro Scientific brings experience from technical committees, expert panels, trade associations, standards-setting organizations, research collaborations, litigation support, and real-world product development.

Blake Ebersole has participated in or supported work connected to:

• American Herbal Products Association
• AOAC International
• ASTM International
• American Botanical Council
• U.S. Hemp Roundtable
• Supplement Safety and Compliance Initiative
• Institute of Food Technologists
• USDA stakeholder initiatives
• FDA-related compliance response
• University research collaborations
• Expert witness matters

He has served as an expert witness in matters involving food testing, clinical research, intellectual property, quality control, quality assurance, and Good Manufacturing Practices.

Who We Help

NaturPro Scientific works with:

• Supplement brands
• Food and beverage companies
• Functional food companies
• Ingredient suppliers
• Botanical suppliers
• Contract manufacturers
• Private label companies
• Co-packers
• Importers
• Distributors
• Retailers
• Investors
• Startups
• Growth-stage companies
• Publicly traded companies
• Legal and regulatory teams
• Quality assurance teams
• Research and development teams
• Technical marketing teams

Whether you are developing a new product, reviewing an existing formula, qualifying a supplier, preparing for manufacturing, fixing a label, building a testing plan, reviewing claims, or improving quality systems, NaturPro Scientific can help.

The NaturPro Difference

NaturPro Scientific combines science, quality, regulatory awareness, manufacturing experience, sourcing knowledge, and commercial practicality.

That combination matters because natural product problems rarely stay in one category.

A sourcing issue becomes a testing issue.

A testing issue becomes a specification issue.

A specification issue becomes a release issue.

A release issue becomes a label issue.

A label issue becomes a claims issue.

A claims issue becomes a regulatory issue.

And a regulatory issue becomes a business problem.

NaturPro Scientific helps clients see the whole system.

Not just the piece directly in front of them.

Work With Independent Natural Product Consultants

If you need help with dietary supplements, functional foods, botanicals, ingredients, GMP compliance, FSVP, supplier qualification, product development, label review, formula review, claims substantiation, testing strategy, or natural product quality, NaturPro Scientific can help.

We bring independent judgment, practical experience, scientific discipline, and a willingness to ask the hard questions before the market does.

For more information, contact NaturPro Scientific.