Our Business Partners

Research

AIBMR Life Sciences, Inc., www.aibmr.com, a full-service natural and medicinal products research institute, has worked with more than 500 nutraceutical companies in the United States and throughout the world. It maintains one of the largest nutraceutical research libraries in the world. The firm specializes in nutraceutical research, foreign and domestic regulatory compliance, preclinical and clinical trials management, safety testing (toxicological studies), product pharmacokinetics, generally recognized as safe (GRAS) self-determination, and product development. AIBMR Life Sciences authored the first certification course on U.S. dietary supplement regulations.

Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D., is the lead scientist and director of natural and medicinal products research for AIBMR. Dr. Schauss has studied nutrition and botanical medicine for more than 30 years and has been the author/co-author of upwards of 100 scientific papers in a diverse range of journals, and recently completed his twelfth book. 

Formulation

Dr. Sandy Schwartz, CEO of Smith Naturals, www.smithnat.com, has 30 years of experience in nutritional research, therapeutics & alternative healing.  Highlights of his career include eight years of service as the Dietetic Consultant to the US Army Surgeon General in Washington, D.C. and his role as co-founder of The Atkins Center for Holistic Medicine in NYC with Robert Atkins.  Dr. Schwartz is credited with the design of numerous herbal & nutritional products, first developed for his private practice, where he treated more than 10,000 patients.

Marketing

Integrated Marketing Group, www.imgbranding.com, is a marketing and branding company that specializes in the area of products and services for the healthy lifestyle industry.  IMG provides a broad range of services including: corporate identity, advertising, public relations, internet marketing, research, packaging, merchandising, sales promotion, educational programs, trade show presence and direct marketing. With more than 50 years of collective experience, IMG services a wide variety of national and international clients. 

IMG's partner and president, Jeff Hilton, has been recognized by Advertising Age as one of the nation’s Top 100 Marketers.  Jeff is a familiar face in the industry as he is frequently invited to lecture at the leading natural products conferences and forums within the U.S. and Canada.

Manufacturing

Vita-Tech International, www.vitatech.com, was founded over 50 years ago on the premise that superior quality is a prime mandate. Vita-Tech International, Inc. is a pharmaceutically licensed manufacturer of nutritional supplements with global reach.  The company's investment in state-of-the-art technology and equipment ensures it has extensive capabilities to meet the demands of its diverse clientele. Offering innovative, results-driven formualtion design, packaging, secure label control, and on-time delivery, Vita-Tech International is the industry Gold Standard.  Partnering with multi-national corporations and pioneering supplement companies, Vita-Tech is recipient of the NNFA Gold Seal of Approval and adheres to the strictest current GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) as defined by the FDA.  This ensures that the nutritional supplements shipped from its facility have been validated for purity in the on-site analytical laboratory and will stand up to the most rigorous quality control requirements."

Legal Counsel

For more than three decades, Greenberg Traurig, www.gtlaw.com, has challenged traditional approaches and worked to provide practical business-focused solutions for emerging companies and Fortune 500  Corporations. Ranked #8 on The National Law Journal's 2005 annual list of leading U.S. law firms, there are more that 1,500 attorneys and governmental affairs professionals on staff whose goal is to deliver bottom-line results.

Our Attorney, James R. Prochnow, concentrates his practice primarily on regulatory affairs with a focus on regulatory compliance for dietary supplements, food and drug law, advertising law, and intellectual property issues.  Jim has 35 years of experience in commercial, administrative, and federal government litigation and administrative matters, including matters before the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Agriculture, and the various federal courts.