Realize that some people rep for companies board members think are great, when they are pure ****. Having friendly "bro's" on a board, doesn't make a good company. There will always be an affinity for consumers to believe smaller companies are on the cutting edge and have all the secrets that big companies don't. The smaller companies are good bro's and looking out for the little guy. In reality, a small company has a snow balls chance in hell of being compliant in today's environment. A well known company, that is larger than most would believe, has 12 people full time on compliance. It is mind blowing what it takes to properly enforce QC these days. We're constantly learning all the new rules and regs, it's a moving target. Commercial theft is rampant in our industry. Companies loading proteins with amino's so they'll test out via nitrogen test. Protein being on point, but fats/carbs being way off. Source changing constantly. Raws never being tested or only before, not after. Almost every company has expiration date violations as almost none of them have used a stability chamber. Go ask any of these smaller companies where they got their expiration date from. The real answer is whatever the bottling company they paid to make it put on there. Which is likely between 2-4 years. FDA is going to bust nuts on this. Once you put an expiration date, your product has to be within 5% of that upon expiration. Every class action lawyer in the country is loading up on products right now to sit. They'll test now and when expiration's up. Then all of these companies will be buried as it will be a per unit violation off entire production runs. Bye bye supplement industry. Reps, for a lot of companies, have little clue as to how the business is ran. Their job is to monitor conversations, answer questions and give feedback. Some are more involved, some aren't. I've never given guidelines to reps. They know what they need to do for us. In exchange, they get nudes. No better pay than that. Your original comment says why rep for a company that makes complete junk, guess it's how you define "junk"? Does that mean over priced or not effective? What about supplement companies that sold misbranded drugs and attempted to go legit from those profits? Almost every company has a dark side to it, people just find a way to justify their support.
(I like AcuteFX btw).
