What's the Process for Manufacturing Dietary Supplements?

Plant-made vitamins, minerals, herbs and products are the ingredients most commonly included in Dietary Supplements. They can also be made from fish, yeasts, fungi and many other foods or extracts. They contain powdered amino acids, vitamins, energy bars, and supplements to liquid foods. Some dietary supplements are manufactured in clean, regulated laboratories under careful conditions, and are accurately labelled. Others are made less carefully, and none of the substances listed on their labels has been identified

Further, let's know about the process of manufacturing Dietary Supplements. 

This is solely the responsibility of the manufacturer to ensure the consistency of the supplements which they also prepare should follow a standard level and suit the descriptions on their labels. 

NutraPak USA has always been one of the manufacturers who have been careful about the supplements they manufacture and sell only high-quality, correctly labelled supplements. There are certain guidelines put forward by the Department of Health and Human Services which cover all supplement makes as of 2010. These guidelines specify rules by which manufactures are more likely to manufacture supplements which contain that is mentioned on their labels.  

Process for Manufacturing Dietary Supplements: 

Generally speaking, the dietary supplement manufacturing process takes approx - weeks from the date of the purchase order. Let’s see the stepwise process.

Formula: A brand owner must ensure that its dietary supplement formula uses the correct amounts of the right ingredients in the raw material to create a simple, observable, evidence-based product. Though initially a formula might not bring immediate and large sales, but once the products have been used, it is much more likely you will begin to get repeat sales.  

Raw Materials: Depending on consistency, ingredients can be picked worldwide and eying types that have high potency and bio-availability. A well-formulated dietary supplement includes the use of conclusive proof-based ingredients to ensure the potency of the product.

Pricing of Formulation: It all begins when the owners submit their pricing request to dietary supplement contract manufacturing. Then the contract manufacturers evaluate raw material pricing for key ingredients with various vendors and create their own version of the formulation. When all this occurs the CM provides the brand owner with a price quote.

Presenting of Purchase order: Once the brand owner submits the purchase order there is where the real work starts. Now the contract manufacturer can go and get the process started.

Raw material order: This is the longest process of supplement manufacturing. As raw material can be any and it depends on how the material is obtained. All the material cant be stocked and kept and hence they need to be bought fresh. So it depends on the type of raw material how much time it takes for this step. 

Testing of Raw Material: Once the raw materials arrive at the CM, cGMP regulations demand that they are separated and tested before they are placed into inventory. Identification and potency, compliance with microbiology and compliance with heavy metals are the types of tests that are needed. Once the samples are approved then manufacturing can begin via bunch.

Bench Work: After the material goes through all the tests they are blended together and a small number of tablets and capsules are developed in the laboratory to establish that the product can work in a finished type of dosage.

Production and Testing: This is where the finishes supplement production occurs. This is also a stepwise process and also has additional testing to be done. There is a uniformity test that ensures that each specified nutrient is uniformly distributed across the whole batch. After which comes the content uniformity wherein it is ensured that each tablet and capsule has proper nutrient potency. 

Material uniformity is charted for both capsules and tablets, to ensure outcomes within the specified range. If for some reason, there is an inappropriate difference in weight, thickness or density, from the product specifications, such capsules or tablets are discarded. These supplements are also tested to check the dissolving capacity. Ideally, one capsule should dissolve within minutes in water which ensures it will dissolve in the human digestive tract as well. The last process of this stage is stability testing which specifies the expiry date and what temperature the supplements need to be stored.

Evaluation of Final Product: When the final batch has been prepared, final testing is carried out similar to that conducted on raw materials. Contract manufacturer must then create a certificate of analysis (COA) which will be sent to the owner of the brand. Here is where the manufacturing process comes to end when the owner approves the COA and the supplements are shipped for distribution. 

NutraPak USA provides quality services in supplements and Liquid Vitamin manufacturing and packaging. We have highly qualified laboratory scientists and formulators to provide in-depth research & development, quality control testing, and product analysis to ensure the manufacture of excellent quality products.