Have you ever wondered what’s in your favorite Herbalife Nutrition product? Yes, the ingredients are listed on the nutrition label, but how can you be sure it is accurate?
Herbalife Nutrition has invested a great amount of time and financial resources in quality control, from sourcing the ingredients, to DNA testing of the botanicals, to ensuring that the ingredients are authentic ingredients, to maintaining high-level packaging standards. Our testing methodologies and processes are certified by third-party standard-setting organizations, giving consumers the confidence that our products contain the ingredients that help our consumers achieve their unique nutrition goals.
Herbalife Innovation and Manufacturing in Changsha is a 234,000-square-foot botanical extraction facility in Hunan Province, China that supplies 2.7 metric tons of powdered botanical extracts per day. Over the years, Herbalife Nutrition has invested millions of dollars in research and quality control methodologies.
Being committed to leading the industry in scientific research, transparency and accountability, we have engaged in efforts such as:
- Adopting Aloe vera (Aloe vera(L.) Burm.f.) in the American Botanical Council’s Adopt-an-Herb program, thus helping the Council to keep its extensive HerbMedPro database up-to-date for researchers, health professionals, industry, students, consumers, and all members of the herbal and dietary supplement community.
- Partnering with United States Pharmacopeia and AOAC to develop official analytical test methods for the industry.
- Purchasing next-generation sequencing equipment, including more than $1 million combined for a nuclear magnetic resonance imager, High-Performance Liquid Chromatography, a gene sequencer and other technologies.
- Diversifying our Genomic/DNA laboratory to improve our DNA analytical techniques for processed botanicals, including extracts.
We are one of the only nutrition companies in the world to have our own comprehensive program to completely characterize botanical ingredients.
We’ll continue to replicate and strengthen these endeavors, ensuring that our customers are getting the highest quality products that deliver results.
Gary SwansonMSc – Sr. Vice President of Global Quality Assurance and Control
Gary Swanson is senior vice president of Global Quality Assurance and Control. He is responsible for all corporate and regional quality assurance teams as well as the testing laboratories and quality operations at Herbalife Nutrition.
He has grown and diversified the Herbalife Nutrition Quality group to include Analytical Method Development, Audit Compliance, Process Validation, Metrology, QMS, Botanical Science and Plant Genomics. Swanson has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Biology from Laurentian University in Sudbury in Ontario and a Master of Science in Neurophysiology from the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. He lives a healthy, active lifestyle by playing golf and enjoying his favorite Herbalife Nutrition products, Herbalife Nutrition Formula 1 Healthy Meal Nutritional Shake Mix Mint Chocolate, MemoryArmor, and Herbalife24 ACHIEVE Protein Bar Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.