Food product ideas – the first step in the process to produce dietary supplements
New product idea is one of the most important factors that contribute to promoting the development of companies and organizations.
With IMC, the product ideas not only come from consultants, professionals, distributers, or our broad of directors, but also from abundant idea resource of our staffs. However, no matter who suppose the product ideas, we developed all the ideas in compliance with a rigorous new product development procedure before launching the product.
Manufacturing in Laboratory scale- The second step in the process to produce dietary supplements
As soon as you start developing new products, R&D Department have already had rough sketches about new product with the compositions, usages, and users; so that they can discover and design more detail about the products.
Ingredients or materials are the components of the product, so this is an important issue to mention first. Materials must be examined if these are in the list of prohibited and restricted substances of authority, and the maximum allowable concentration …. After that, materials need to be checked the feasibility. With herbs, it is necessary to check the collection/cultivation feasibility and the eradicating effects on herb resource if the production quantity increases…
Actually, it is not easy to find all the medicinal herbs in market; we have to look up in references, consult descriptions in references to distinguish the species that are easily confused; beside, the quality control also works collaboratively to distinguish by chemical analysis. Sometimes, there are many similar species in a genus, we cannot distinguish them by a few normally morphological features, and then we will send the samples to qualified botanical centers to identify botanical nomenclatures of species.
When we gather all information about material resources, we begin to develop new product. The pharmaceutical form assigned by distributers, selection of flavor and taste for taste masking, or maintain the concentration of unstable ingredients are difficult issues in pharmaceutical research. With formulation having high concentration of active ingredients and/or herbal extracts, researchers have to perform experiments many times to find the best formulation. It is no wonder that when the products need researching urgently for launching, Fluid bed granulator & dryer, Tablet compression machine or film coating machine operate at full capacity; pharmaceutical laboratory is always having lights on; Researchers and technicians have to stay up all night o make samples meeting the requirements in time.
Stability tests must be conducted on the sample product in trade packaging to ensure the maintenance of product quality, safety and efficacy, throughout its self-life. Therefore, the researchers not only have excellent pharmaceutical expertise but also work diligently and meticulously.
Product registration- the third step in the process to produce dietary supplement
The next step in the process is to register the product with Local Hygiene and Food Safety Authority. Researcher and product administrator have to supply certification of analysis and fully stability data of sample product that having quality of conformance, then these documents must be checked and approved by R&D department manager and other relative departments before submit to authorities. The indicators in certificate of analysis also comply with general standards of dietary supplement and meet the specific requirements of each specific product.
Currently, the registration with Local Hygiene and Food Safety Authority is conformed via an electronic declaration. Local Hygiene and Food Safety Authority All will verify registration documents and response in electricity document. Each company, organization, or individual will have a separate account. All update information and adding or correcting requirements are informed to the account on this website and the mail address of the company, organization, or individual. Changes and corrections can be made by the account. Registration certificate approved by the Authority is exported from this account.
The development of new products from the laboratory stage to commercial stage go through many steps, in each step, the output depend on the professional of each department. At any step in the process, we always ensure high quality of the products; it is the guiding principle of IMC.