TOP TRENDS
Why Choose Us
If you are building a lasting business based on honesty and integrity then we are the kind of company you can appreciate. A fully equipped laboratory and a robust cGMP compliance system ensures that our brands are selling.
"Consumers want clean labels with words they recognize”
-Nature Foods Merchandiser
When deciding on the composition of your product, please keep in mind that recent marketing research (Health Focus International) shows that consumers like simple ingredient lists that only contain ingredients they understand. We have invested in specialized equipment to make supplements without manufacturing agents. After mixing the raw materials we decide on which unique encapsulation machine we will use. This depends on how easily the mixed raw material flows. Powders that are not free flowing go on a slow auger driven encapsulation machine. Free flowing powders go on a higher speed machine.
More and more label owners want to accommodate their potential customers that feel excipients compromise the quality, absorption, and integrity of supplements, and have come to us because they know of our core competency in manufacturing without excipients. This indeed has been the foundation of our business since 1993 and is the reason we have developed methods that allow us to manufacture without binders, release agents, flow agents, and the like. “Other Ingredients” often contain ingredients people don’t understand fully: Magnesium Stearate, Stearic Acid, Silicon Dioxide, Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Croscarmellose Sodium, Polyethylene Glycol. Those are all ingredients that many people DISLIKE.
Preservative free liquids. How?
Our expert chemist invented a way to cut all preservatives out of liquid nutritional formulas by cutting all water out. This results in liquid nutrition that keeps without preservatives. Our liquid formulas taste wonderful and include raw materials such as: Monk Fruit Powder, Silica, Virgin Cold Pressed Olive Oil, Vitamin E Tocopherol, Natural Sunflower, Oil Soluble Vitamin C, Coconut Monolaurin, Quillaja and Natural Flavors.
Heavy Metal Analysis
Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) is an instrument we use in our in-house laboratory in order to quantify the concentration of metallic elements such as:
Upon customer request and according to availability of standards, we can also perform quantification of many other elemental contaminants such as Nickel (Ni), Copper (Cu), Chromium (Cr), Cobalt (Co), Molybdenum (Mo), Osmium (Os), Iridium (Ir), Rhodium (Rh), and more.
Microbiology Analysis
Many contract manufacturers’ single point of focus in their lab is a microbiology plate reader from 3M (with petri film). This instrument is completely unsatisfactory for use on herbs. We have the 3M system and we know it does not work reliably on measuring microbiology in herbs and extracts. It does not work for two reasons:
(1) antimicrobial metabolites or chemicals in the samples require the chemists to dilute the sample to a level that makes the results unreliable; (2) the color of the samples get in the way of reading the plates, i.e. turmeric. We primarily use the 3M system for analyzing chemicals for microbiology contamination.
Identity Testing
Testing herbs for identity is essential. The most appropriate method per USP is the high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC). Even if DNA testing has a fancy appeal, it unfortunately does not work when it comes to identifying herbal supplements. See this blogpost. The following statement from USP (US Pharmacopeial Convention) urges people to not rely on DNA testing, stating, “DNA-based methods are not suitable for materials, such as botanical extracts, that were subjected to processes that denature, degrade and destroy DNA.”
PureNSM checks every herbal batch with an HPTLC onsite. HPTLC is the premium test equipment for identity tests.
Systemized Operations
If formulation, inventory and production records are kept in Excel spreadsheets it can cause disorganization, confusion, mistakes and makes it easier for the employees of the manufacturer to cut corners without leaving a trace.
WARNING: Avoid “Drylabbing”
The only remedy for ensuring that the lab you hire isn’t “DryLabbing” is to send a known sample. We recommend you do so randomly. Dry labbing is when a lab claims to do research, but in reality just guessed the conclusion. In other words, they are cheating! We make sure our contract manufacturer is not drylabbing us!
Potency Testing
We just installed our high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipment. This will give us a quicker turnaround for less cost. The HPLC is the most effective instrument in determining the identity and quantity of elements and molecules in herbal supplements. We will continue to outsource this test until our in-house chemists have completed training on the HPLC.
