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.
Why did we create this 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
Here you'll find many articles from various industry publications, some of which might apply to your current item or claim. This page is a very long list of entries, hundreds of pages, so we give you extensive filtering methods on it.
When you enter one of the individual citation pages via its edit gear, you'll see:
- The full name of the article
- The article's abstract, if available
- A citation statement
- The publication journal
- Other details about the article
In that open citation page there will be a hamburger menu at far upper-right which gives you ways to download or apply the citation to your formula, or to download the full text of the cited article.
Ingredients Sub-Tab
Our Smart Library "Ingredients" sub-tab is not directly connected with any of the items on your "Items" tab or on your "Items Supplied" tab. These deepest raw materials (they have no sub-components comprising them) permit the taxonomy that our data team maintains for your reference.
1. In the sidebar, you can filter the ingredients list by:
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- A filter-string
- Multiple Health Topics simultaneously
- Ingredient types, also multiple simultaneously
2. Click the edit gear on a single ingredient row and you'll get a page of panels:
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- 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.