What They Are: Nutraceuticals are products like vitamins, minerals, herbal supplements, and amino acids designed to offer health benefits beyond basic nutrition.
FSSAI Regulations:
1. Approval and Registration: Before being sold, nutraceuticals must be approved by FSSAI. This requires detailed information on the product's ingredients, intended health benefits, and production methods.
2. Labeling: The product label must clearly list all ingredients, nutritional content, recommended usage, and any health claims. Claims must be backed by scientific evidence.
3. Manufacturing Practices: The production process must follow Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) to ensure the product’s safety and quality.
Required Testing:
1. Ingredient Testing: Laboratory verify that the product contains the stated amounts of active ingredients and check their quality.
2. Purity Testing: Tests are performed to detect contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides, or bacteria to ensure the product is safe for consumption.
3. Stability Testing: Products are tested for how well they maintain their quality and effectiveness over time under different storage conditions.
4. Bioavailability Testing: This assesses how effectively the body absorbs and uses the active ingredients in the nutraceutical.
Benefits of Regular Quality Testing.
1. Better quality of Nutraceutical Product Testing as per FSSAI Standards.
2. Lower Rejection Ratio and low wastage due to strict quality control at every stage.
3. More Confidence in business due to best quality of functional and Nutraceutical Product Testing.
4. High Customer Satisfaction hence building good brand image.
5. High Business Volume and Profit due to high confidence in Quality and Business.
6. Experts Guidance to improve the Quality & Process.
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