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Introduction to Quality
Assurance
We consider
the quality of our products to be paramount. All the Directors and many of the
staff use the products regularly themselves (with great success!) and with
their families. The biggest proportion of our sales goes to Health
Practitioners of all kinds (medical and nutritional) who need to know that they
are getting only the very best and most effective supplements. All of our
products meet GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and beyond.
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| FACTORS WHICH AFFECT QUALITY & BIOAVAILABILITY OF THE
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Manufacturing and
bioavailability
The
way the tablet is manufactured significantly affects its bioavailability and
absorption potential in the body. Many so-called innocuous excipients used
inthe tabletting process can themselves affect the availability of the active
substancesfor absorption, hence the importance of reducing these excipients to
a minimum.Food State products use only minimum excipients.
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Pressure and
bioavailability
The
bioavailability of the active ingredients is affected by the pressure applied
to the tablet in its creation. Pressure generates heat which deleteriously
affects theactive substances. It also disturbs the disintegration time of the
tablet, consequentlyproducing a poor or negligible absorption. This is why Food
State tablets aregently pressed.
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Heat and
bioavailability
It is
essential that the punch heads, which shape the tablets, are allowed to cool at
frequent intervals. The practice of very high output runs causes the punch
headsto overheat and allows too high temperatures to build up in the tablet.
This damagesthe active ingredients in the tablet. Food State tablets are made
in small productionruns, so preventing the punch heads from
overheating.
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Excipients and our
formulations
Excipients are ingredients used in nutritional supplements for
several reasons. They are required in manufacturing under certain circumstances
and deemedimportant by marketing departments for other considerations.
With regard to the manufacturing aspect,
some excipients are indeed required and the following are some of the
reasons.
BULKING:
If the active
component of a supplement is particularly small (micrograms or low milligram)
then clearly a larger measured material size is required in order to form a
tablet.
BINDERS:
This aspect of manufacture is essential to hold the
tablet together when required.
The other
main areas of excipient use are:
- Colourings/Flavourings
- Preservatives/Gums
- Emulsifiers/Stabilisers
- Disintegrators
We do not include materials
for cosmetic purposes. The focus has been to deliver the active ingredients in
as pure and unadulterated form as possible.
We do not include materials that can be considered undesirable for
human ingestion.
Many materials
used in supplement manufacture are not illegal, but we consider them
undesirable.
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