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The dietary supplement industry has seen impressive growth over the past decade. In the United States alone, the market was valued at over $50 billion in 2021 and is projected to reach $77 billion by 2028. Several factors are contributing to this upward trajectory, including rising health consciousness, an aging population, and growing interest in preventative healthcare and natural products.

Dietary supplements encompass a wide array of products including vitamins, minerals, herbs, botanicals, amino acids, enzymes, and probiotics. These are consumed in forms like pills, capsules, tablets, liquids, powders, and energy bars. Supplements are popular for wellness maintenance, addressing nutritional deficiencies, targeting specific health concerns, or enhancing sports performance and recovery. They complement, rather than replace, a healthy balanced diet.

Consumers increasingly want dietary supplements that are highly pure, safe, effective, and produced to rigorous quality standards. This has stimulated demand for contract manufacturing services to develop premium supplements. Specialist manufacturing partners offer expertise in sourcing high-grade raw materials, advanced production techniques, stringent testing protocols, and recognized quality systems. Their capabilities allow brands to bring novel, compliant, science-backed supplements to market faster and more efficiently.

VITAMIN B1

VITAMIN B1 TABLETS

VITAMIN B6

VITAMIN B6 TABLETS

Benefits of Using a Contract Manufacturer

Partnering with a contract manufacturer for dietary supplement production offers numerous benefits over in-house manufacturing:

- **Maintain Quality Standards:

** Contract manufacturers have extensive expertise in meeting stringent dietary supplement regulations and quality standards, such as GMP compliance, set forth by the FDA. Their focus on quality ensures the supplements are manufactured reliably and consistently.

- **Leverage Specialized Expertise:

** Rather than developing specialized expertise internally, supplement brands can leverage the formulation knowledge, technical capabilities, and experience that contract manufacturers possess. Their expertise results in high-quality custom supplement formulations.

- **Increase Efficiency:

** Contract manufacturing streamlines operations by handling activities like sourcing ingredients, production, packaging, and shipping. This allows supplement brands to focus their efforts on sales, marketing and product development.

- **Access Advanced Technology:

** Contract manufacturers make significant investments in state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for innovations in manufacturing techniques and technologies. This provides access to advanced capabilities that would require major capital investments if done in-house.

- **Adapt to Market Demands:

** The production flexibility and scalability of contract manufacturers helps brands quickly adapt to changes in market demand. This agility and speed to market for new products is difficult to achieve with internal manufacturing.

- **Reduce Costs:

** By leveraging economies of scale in purchasing and manufacturing, contract manufacturing helps lower overall operating costs for dietary supplement brands. The specialized expertise also leads to greater manufacturing efficiency and waste reduction.

VITAMIN D3

VITAMIN D3 TABLETS

VITAMIN D3

VITAMIN D3 TABLETS

Key Capabilities to Look For

When evaluating dietary supplement manufacturers, look for the following key capabilities:

- **cGMP compliance**:

Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) are regulations enforced by the FDA to ensure quality, safety, and consistency in supplement production. A reputable manufacturer should be cGMP compliant, with rigorous procedures for testing, equipment calibration, employee training, and facility maintenance. This ensures your products meet quality standards.

- **Proprietary blends**:

Trusted manufacturers can create customized proprietary blends using science-backed ingredients tailored to your desired claims and benefits. Their formulation experts can combine ingredients synergistically while masking unwanted tastes and textures. This allows unique products.

- **Variety of delivery formats**:

Quality manufacturers offer diverse delivery formats like tablets, capsules, softgels, powders, liquids, and gummies. Different formats suit different ingredients, dosages, shelf lives, and consumer preferences. Look for manufacturers adept at all formats to accommodate your supplement line.

The right partner should demonstrate deep expertise in these key areas when producing your dietary supplements. Their capabilities directly impact the quality, effectiveness, and integrity of your finished products. Scrutinize manufacturing processes closely.

VITAMIN D3

VITAMIN D3 TABLETS

VITAMIN D3

VITAMIN D3 TABLETS

VITAMIN B12

VITAMIN B12 TABLETS

tri B

VITAMIN Tri B TAB

Certifications and Accreditations

When evaluating contract manufacturers, look for companies that have obtained certifications and accreditations. These provide assurance that the facility follows rigorous standards for quality, safety, and operational excellence. Key certifications to look for include:

- **NSF International**

- NSF International is an independent, third-party testing organization that certifies dietary supplements and manufacturing facilities for compliance with its high standards. NSF certification ensures products contain what's on the label, nothing unsafe or illegal, and are made in a cGMP compliant facility.

- **UL**

- Underwriters Laboratories (UL) is another independent safety testing and certification organization. UL audits and certifies manufacturing facilities for safety and quality. UL certification provides an extra layer of trust and reassurance.

- **ISO**

- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) issues certifications like ISO 9001 and ISO 17025 to companies that meet international standards for quality management and laboratory practices. ISO certification indicates adherence to validated best practices.

- **USP**

- The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) offers a dietary supplement verification program to test for purity and potency. Products that pass earn the distinctive USP seal. This provides assurance of supplement quality and content.

Partnering with a contract manufacturer that has earned certifications from reputable organizations like NSF, UL, ISO, and USP demonstrates their commitment to the highest standards of quality, safety, and manufacturing excellence. These valued credentials should provide peace of mind to retailers, healthcare professionals, and consumers.

Custom Formulation

An effective contract manufacturer should offer customized formulation services to meet your specific product requirements. This involves collaborating closely with their research and development (R&D) team to create unique blends and formulas tailored to your needs.

Some key factors they should help with include:

- Identifying the right ingredients and ratios to achieve your desired efficacy, taste, texture, and other attributes. Their expertise can determine optimal combinations.

- Suggesting alternate ingredients if any initially proposed options would be too expensive, difficult to source, unstable, or introduce other issues.

- Overseeing safety and stability testing to ensure your custom formula will be safe and shelf-stable.

- Adjusting the formula during scale-up to account for any changes from small-scale mixing to large-scale production.

- Managing costs throughout the R&D process to keep formulation affordable. This may involve research to source quality ingredients at the best prices, minimizing test batches, and other optimizations.

- Providing documentation and samples for your testing and evaluation before moving to production.

- Maintaining compliance with all supplement regulations during the development process.

The right contract manufacturer invests considerable resources in their R&D program. This enables them to take your base formula idea through the necessary tweaking, refining, and enhancements needed to create a premium, customized product you'll be proud to launch and market.

Sourcing Quality Ingredients

When choosing a contract manufacturer for dietary supplements, it's critical that they have rigorous processes for sourcing top-quality ingredients. This starts with careful supplier selection and auditing. Reputable manufacturers will thoroughly vet all ingredient suppliers, reviewing their certifications, testing data, and visiting facilities.

Ongoing supplier audits should verify that Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) are followed, and that purity and potency standards are met. Certificates of analysis from independent labs should accompany each ingredient batch. The manufacturer should test incoming ingredients to confirm identity, purity and composition.

Full supply chain traceability is also essential. The contract manufacturer should be able to provide documentation tracking the origins and handling of all ingredients. With complete traceability, any issues can be swiftly identified and addressed.

Sourcing high-caliber ingredients from trustworthy suppliers enables the production of safe, effective, consistent dietary supplements. Partnering with a manufacturer that devotes substantial resources to ingredient quality helps ensure your products meet the highest standards. Their rigorous oversight of the supply chain is an indicator of their commitment to excellence.

Advanced Manufacturing Equipment

Contract manufacturers invest in state-of-the-art equipment to produce high volumes of supplements efficiently while maintaining quality standards. This includes:

- **High-volume blenders**:

Large V-blenders with capacities over 1,000 lbs ensure thorough mixing of powders. This prevents ingredient segregation and batch-to-batch variability.

- **Encapsulators**:

High-speed encapsulating machines can produce over 100,000 capsules per hour. They fill capsules precisely and minimize product loss. Softgel encapsulation is also available.

- **Tablet presses**:

Tablet presses with multiple stations can compress tens of thousands of tablets per hour. They consistently form tablets with precise doses and elegant finishes.

- **Bottle filling and labeling**:

Automated filling and labeling machines fill thousands of bottles per hour with capsules or tablets while applying labels accurately. This ensures efficiency and accuracy.

Investments in advanced equipment allow contract manufacturers to rapidly produce high volumes of supplements while maintaining complete quality control over critical manufacturing processes.

Stringent Quality Control

Quality control is a critical part of the supplement manufacturing process. A reputable contract manufacturer will have rigorous quality control procedures in place to verify the identity, purity, strength and composition of raw materials, in-process materials, and finished products.

Contaminant testing is essential to ensure the safety and purity of supplements. Contract manufacturers should test for microbial contaminants, heavy metals, pesticide residues, solvent residues and other contaminants. They should conduct raw material testing, in-process testing, and final product testing. The most advanced manufacturers use state-of-the-art analytical testing methods such as ICP-MS and LC-MS to screen for contaminants at parts per billion or parts per trillion levels.

Potency verification is also vital. Manufacturers must test to confirm that finished products contain the correct amounts of active ingredients listed on the label. This involves quantitative analytical testing with HPLC, GC, or other methods. Potency should be verified for each batch of product to guarantee supplement strength and consistency.

Rigorous quality control ensures that contaminants are kept well below safe limits, products have the identity and composition they are labeled for, and batch-to-batch variability is minimized. Choosing a contract manufacturer with stringent quality control procedures provides critical peace of mind that your supplements will be safe and effective.

Order Fulfillment Services

Contract manufacturers can provide end-to-end order fulfillment services to streamline operations for supplement brands. This includes warehousing, shipping, and logistics management.

Having supplement inventory stored at the contract manufacturer's warehouse saves brands the cost of renting their own warehouse space. The manufacturer's warehouses are designed specifically for storing sensitive dietary supplement products, with climate controls, security, and adherence to cGMP standards.

Contract manufacturers have established relationships with shipping carriers and leverage volume discounts on shipping rates. They can negotiate the best rates for FOB shipping terms and handle all the packaging, labeling, and shipping logistics to get supplement orders delivered efficiently to customers or retail partners.

Their teams are experts at order fulfillment, using warehouse management systems to pick, pack and ship orders with accuracy. Contract manufacturers have shipping docks, freight staging areas, and inspect incoming and outgoing shipments.

By leveraging the contract manufacturer as a fulfillment partner, supplement brands can minimize overhead costs while getting access to superior warehousing infrastructure and shipping rates. Seamless order fulfillment ensures timely delivery and happy customers.

Choosing the Right Partner

Choosing the right contract manufacturer is critical for producing high-quality dietary supplements. When vetting potential partners, here are some key factors to consider:

**Experience and Expertise**

- Look for a manufacturer that has extensive experience formulating and producing dietary supplements, preferably 10+ years in the industry. They should have expertise across various delivery formats like tablets, capsules, softgels, gummies, and powders.

- Ensure they have experience working with major supplement brands and retailers. Their client list should include reputable companies.

- Look for deep formulation expertise across a wide range of ingredients like vitamins, minerals, herbs, probiotics, amino acids, etc. They should be able to create complex formulas.

**Services Offered**

- Consider the range of services offered beyond basic manufacturing, like custom formulation, raw materials sourcing, labeling, packing, warehousing, and order fulfillment. Having more services under one roof can streamline operations.

- Look for product development services to collaborate on creating innovative supplement concepts and bringing them to market.

**Certifications**

- Confirm the manufacturer is GMP certified for dietary supplements by NSF, NPA, or another accredited organization. This ensures they follow strict quality standards.

- Check that they are FDA registered. While not required, this demonstrates commitment to U.S. regulations.

**Quality and Testing**

- Review their quality control and testing capabilities. advanced in-house laboratories, strict protocols, and retention samples can help ensure each batch meets specifications.

- Ask about analytical testing – do they test for potency, purity, heavy metals, allergens, and other contaminants? How do they ensure ingredient identities are verified?

**Technical Capabilities**

- Look for state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment and technologies that improve quality, efficiency, and capabilities. Tablet presses, encapsulators, coaters, blister pack machines, and high-speed bottling allow them to produce a wide variety of products.

By carefully evaluating prospective partners on these criteria, you can identify the right contract manufacturer to produce high-quality dietary supplements that meet your brand standards. Partnering with an experienced, certified manufacturer provides assurance and expertise so you can focus on sales, marketing, and product innovation.

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Product List - Liquid Injections


Product NameStrength
Vitamin B1 injection 100mg: 2ml
Vitamin B6 Injection 0.1g: 2ml
Vitamin B12 injection 0.5mg:1ml
VIT-B Complex injection 2ml
Tri B-inj B1-100mg+B2-100mg+B12-1000mcg 3ml
Vitamin C injection 0.5g:2ml
VITAMIN K1 injection 10mg:1ml
Dexamethasone Na phosphate injection 4mg: 1ml
Dexamethasone Na phosphate injection 8mg: 2ml
Diclofenac Sodium Injection 75mg:3ml
Metoclopramide hydrochloride injection 10mg:2ml
Metoclopramide hydrochloride injection 5mg:1ml
Iron Sucrose IV Injection 100mg:5ml
Iron Dextran Injection 100mg:2ml
Promethazine Hydrochloride Injection 50mg:2ml
Gentamycin sulfate injection 40mg:2ml
Gentamycin sulfate injection 80mg:2ml
Furosemide Injection 20mg:2ml
Aminophylline Injection 250mg:10ml
Paracetamol injection 150mg:1ml
Paracetamol injection 300mg:2ml
Paracetamol injection 500mg:4ml
Paracetamol injection 600mg:4ml
Paracetamol injection 750mg:5ml
Diazepam injection 5mg/1ml
Diazepam injection 10mg:2ml
Diazepam injection 5mg/1ml
Diazepam injection 10mg:2ml
Oxytocin Injection 5 iu/1ml
Oxytocin Injection 10 iu / 1ml
Chlorphenamine Maleate Injection 10mg:1ml
Hyoscine Butylbromide(Buscopan)Injection 20mg:1ml
Lidocaine Hydrochloride injection 10ml:0.2g
Methotrexate for Injection 50mg:2ml
ENOXAPARIN SODIUM Prefilled syringe 40MG/0.4ML
ENOXAPARIN SODIUM Prefilled syringe 60MG/0.6ML
ENOXAPARIN SODIUM Prefilled syringe 80MG/0.8ML
Adrenaline(Epinephrine HCL)Injection 1mg:1ml
Testosterone 250mg:1ml 250mg:1ml

Product List - Vial Injections

Product Name Strength
Omeprazol 40 mg IV VIAL 10ml or 5ml
Pantoprazole Sodium for Injection 40mg
Lansoprazole for Injection 30 mg
Ceftriaxone 1gm/10ml IV VIAL +10ml water
Ceftriaxone 1gm/10ml VIAL +Lidocain 1%
Ceftriaxone IM/IV VIAL 500mg/15 ml
Ampicillin Na VIAL 0.5 g/Vial
Ampicillin Na VIAL 1g/Vial
Cefotaxime Sodium for VIAL 1g/Vial
Ceftazidime For I.M/I.V VIAL 1g/Vial
Cefepime For I.M/I.V VIAL 1g/Vial
Meropenem VIAL Injection 1g/20ml/Vial
Procaine Penicillin(0.4mega/7ml) 400.000 U/7ml
Procaine Penicillin(0.6mega/7ml) 600.000 U/7ml
Procaine Penicillin(1.2mega/7ml) 800.000 U/7ml
Procaine Penicillin (0.8mega/7ml) 1200.000 U/7ml
Benzathine Penicillin for Injection 1.2mega/7ml
Vancomycin Hcl injection 500mg 500mg/Vial
Vancomycin Hcl injection 500mg 1g/Vial
Heparin Sodium Injection 5ml:5000 units
Heparin Sodium Injection 5ml:25000 units
Amoxicillin Na and Clavulanate Potassium for Inj(augmentin) G Powder 1.2
Amoxicillin Na and Clavulanate Potassium for Inj(augmentin) G Powder 0.6
lyophilized Hydrocortisone Na Succinate 3ml:0.1gm
aseptic lyophilized Hydrocortisone Na Succinate 7m:0.1gm
Phenobarbital Sodium Injection 1ml:0.1g
Piperacillin Sodium and Tazobactam Na for Inj 4.5g

Product List - IV INFUSION

Product Name Strength
Paracetamol 1G IV infusion 100ml glass bottle
Metronidazole 500mg IV infusion 100ml glass bottle
Ciprofloxacine 200mg IV infusion 20ml plastic bottle
0.9% Na Chloride IV Inj 500ml plastic bottle
5% Glucose Injection 250ml:12.5g,500ml:25g
10% Glucose Injection 250ml:12.5g,500ml:25g
Sodium Lactate Ringer`s Inj 500ml Plastic Bottle
5% Glu + 0.9% Na Chlorid inj 250ml: Glu 12.5g,NaCl 2.25g
5% Glu + 0.9% Na Chlorid inj 500ml: Glu 25g,NaCl 4.5g
10% Glu + 0.9% Na Chlorid inj 250ml: Glu 25g,NaCl 2.25g
10% Glu + 0.9% Na Chlorid inj 500ml: Glu 50g,NaCl 4.5g
Mannitol injection 250ml:50g P Bottle

Product List - SYRUP

Product Name Strength
Amoxicillin 125mg + Clavulanic Acid 31.5mg 100 ml glass Bottle
Amoxicillin 250mg + Clavulanic Acid 62.5mg 100 ml glass Bottle
Amoxicillin 400mg + Clavulanic Acid 75mg 100 ml glass Bottle
Azithromycine 100mg 15ml 1bottle/Box
Metronidazole 125mg 100 ml glass Bottle
Metronidazole 250mg 100 ml glass Bottle
Amoxicillin 125 mg 100 ml glass Bottle
Amoxicillin 250 mg 100 ml glass Bottle
Paracetamol syrup 250mg/5ml 250mg/5ml syrup
Ibuprofen Dry Suspension 100mg/5ml 100ml Suspension

Product List - TABLETS

Product Name Strength
Azithromycine 500mg Tab(3 tabs) 3 tablets X 1 blister
Metronidazole 500mg Tab(14 tabs) 7 tablets X 2 blisters
Ciprofloxacine 500mg TAB(10 tabs) 10 tablets X 1 blister
Amoxicillin 250mg + Clavulanic Acid 125mg(14 tabs) 7 tablets x 2 blister
Amoxicillin 500mg + Clavulanic Acid 125mg(14 tabs) 7 tablets x 2 blister
Amoxicillin 875mg + Clavulanic Acid 125mg(14 tabs) 7 tablets x 2 blister
Nitrofurantoin 100mg Tablets 10 tablets X 1 blister
Aspirin Enteric-coated 500mg 10 tablets X 1 blister
Paracetamol 500mg 10 tablets X 1 blister
Ibuprofen 400mg 10 tablets X 1 blister
Diclofenac Na 400mg 10 tablets X 1 blister
Diclofenac 50mg + Paracetamol 500mg 10 tablets X 1 blister
Folic acid 5mg Tab 10 tablets X 1 blister
Ciprofloxacin Tablets 10 tablets X 1 blister
Doxycycline 100mg Tab 10 tablets X 1 blister
Meloxicam 15mg Tab 10 tablets X 2 blisters
Fluconazole 150mg Tab 10 tablets X 2 blisters
Simvastatin 40mg Tab 10 tablets X 2 blisters
Prednisolone 5mg Tab 10 tablets X 2 blisters
Spiramycin 750,000 unit Tab 10 tablets X 2 blisters
Spiramycin 1,500,000 unit Tab 10 tablets X 2 blisters

Product List - CAPSULES

Product Name Strength
Amoxicillin 500mg(16 Capsules) 8 cap X 2 blisters
Ampicillin Capsules 10 cap X 2 blisters
Cloxacillin Na Capsules 10 cap X 2 blisters
Piroxicam Capsule 10 cap X 2 blisters
Tetracyline 250 mg Capsule 10 cap X 2 blisters
Oxytetracycline 250mg Capsule 10 cap X 2 blisters
Spiramycin 375,000 unit Cap 10 cap X 2 blisters
Indomethacin 25mg Capsule 10 cap X 2 blisters

Product List - Suppository

Product Name Strength
Paracetamol 125mg suppository 5 Supp x 2 blister
Paracetamol 250mg suppository 5 Supp x 2 blister
Policresulen Vaginal 90mg Suppository 4 Supp x 2 blister
Chlorhexidine Acetate 20mg Supp 5 Supp x 2 blister
Miconazole Nitrate Vaginal 100mg Supp 5 Supp x 2 blister
Clotrimazole Vaginal 150mg Supp 5 Supp x 2 blister
Metronidazole Vaginal 500mg Supp 5 Supp x 2 blister
Indomethacin 500mg Supp 5 Supp x 2 blister