Natural Products & Dietary Supplements – Identification of Raw Materials & Finished Products

FDA regulations will soon require more stringent inspection for identity, purity, quality, potency and composition of dietary ingredients and supplements.

Near infrared is a tried and trusted method for material testing and identification accepted by the FDA and United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and is utilised routinely throughout the pharmaceutical industry. With growing pressure from the Food and Drug Administration on the natural products or neutraceutical industry to standardise ingredients and ensure product purity and quality, unique new and portable VIS-NIR spectroscopy is a highly efficient, covenient and cost-effective means to perform a wide variety of product testing in this industry.

New LabSpec® portable VIS-NIR spectroscopy is not only ideal for quality control at any stage of the manufacturing process, but also for inspection and identity verification of incoming raw materials and finished products. This can often be achieved by measuring through the packaging and thus eliminating the need for costly, time consuming and inconvenient sampling procedures.

LabSpec® VIS-NIR analysers and software meet compliance requirements set under 21 CFR Part 11, and guidelines for USP 1119, by providing validatable, qualitative and quantitative testing procedures.

With the wider spectral range (350-2500nm), true portability and unique post-dispersive optical system in LabSpec® instrumentation, 100% inspection of raw materials and finished products becomes a convenient reality. Seamless user-friendly interfaces to available data processing software packages enable rapid raw material testing; in Goods Inwards areas, on the manufacturing floor, or whereever it is needed, positioning you to meet GMP and FDA requirements, quickly and conveniently. In many cases this is easily possible by measuring with a High Intensity Contact Probe through-the-packaging. Why take samples when you can measure directly, in-situ exactly when and where you need an answer?!