What is the feature?
Fulfill your product claims by researching ingredients and citations from hundreds of categories, such as chemicals, botanicals, fish & animal products, and packaging using our Smart Library feature.
Having direct access to published research materials is essential for the process of claim substantiation.
How do you implement/use this feature?
Arriving on the Smart Library landing page, you'll see two sub-tabs, 'Ingredients' and 'Citations', at top left.
Citations Sub-Tab
Access a vast collection of industry articles, carefully curated to support your item or claim. With hundreds of entries, you can use extensive filtering tools to quickly locate relevant research.
Upon entering an article via the edit icon , you'll see:
- The full name of the article.
- The article's abstract, if available.
- A citation statement.
- The publication journal.
- Details about the article on the right side of the page (this will move to the bottom of the page on a narrow web-browser window).
Additionally, the hamburger menu in the upper-right corner provides options to download the citation, apply it to your item or formula, or access the full text of the cited article if available.
Ingredients Sub-Tab
The Smart Library 'Ingredients' sub-tab operates independently of the 'Items' and 'Items Supplied' tabs. These raw materials, which contain no sub-components, support the classification system maintained by our data team for reference.
1. In the sidebar on the left, you can filter the ingredients list by:
- Ingredient name(s)
- Health Topic(s)
- Types of ingredient(s)
2. Click the edit icon for a given ingredient row to see the following details:
- Taxonomy
- Names
- Identifiers
- Sources and Forms
- Monographs
3. The hamburger menu in the top right corner will allow a user to connect research with either an existing item or claim.