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As the need for scientific support for potential health claims for healthy foods increases, India is leveraging its pharmaceutical expertise to take a bite of the functional foods pie.
Contract manufacturer, Robinson Pharma Inc (RPI), has responded to increased business with a $1m spend at its Californian that includes the installation of “state-of-the-art analytical equipment” to boost quality control testing within the company.
Florida-based RZN Nutraceuticals has won a US patent for a process that improves the bioavailability of herbal products and which it says will drive contract manufacturing business.
Nutritional ingredient firm Sabinsa has said its new manufacturing
and distribution facility is fully operational, which the company
hopes will allow it to take its ingredients into international
markets.
The biggest problem facing contract testing in the dietary
supplement and herbal industries is that there have not been enough
standardized methods for different formulations and products,
according to a contract lab specialist.
