Manufacturing Standards
When choosing nutritional supplements it is not only important to
evaluate the formulation, but the manufacturing procedures as
well. Unfortunately, many supplement manufactures won't share this
information with the end consumer. Imprecise manufacturing
procedures can lead to cross contamination, inconsistent blends,
under-weight or damaged capsules, and an inferior product.
Vaxa believes that good formulas can only lead to good health by
starting with quality and efficacious product ingredients. Thus,
Vaxa offers assurance that all of the ingredients used in our
formulations are simply the best available in the world. The
strictest of product testing procedures and quality control
measures have been insisted upon and instituted regarding the
manufacturing of all Vaxa products.
There are over 1,000 nutritional manufacturing facilities in the
United States. Less than ½ of 1% of the nutritional manufacturing
facilities in the country match the exacting standards followed in
the Vaxa facility. From raw material selection, to the water we
clean our equipment with (details below) it is hard to match the
intense attention to detail that goes into all of Vaxa's products.
All Vaxa advanced nutraceutical supplements are manufactured in an
FDA registered and inspected facility. All ingredients contained
within each Vaxa formula are considered dietary food entities or
supplements.
Only Superior Suppliers Pass The 1st Examination; A More
Rigorous Test Comes Next:
For each ingredient we screen potential suppliers by several
critical factors. We ask questions such as: "In which region was
it grown?" "Is it certified organic?" "Was it grown for
supplements or for whole foods?" "How do you prevent degradation
of the product?" "Is it irradiated or chemically cleaned?" Active
ingredients such as Sodium Bicarbonate, Calcium Carbonate and
Potassium Bicarbonate must be pharmaceutical grade. In the lab,
raw materials from a vendor are tested as they come in the door -
we do not accept the Certificate of Analysis at face value. Tests
are done visually, by smell, taste and then scientifically.
Alkalinity is tested and the batch is run through a pharmaceutical
standard, state of the art machine called a High-Pressure Liquid
Chromatographer to test down to the trillions the elemental
factors of the compound. Then it is blueprinted on a near infrared
scanner that identifies 450 constituents qualitatively. That
becomes our standard that every future batch from the vendor must
match. Before the ingredient goes to manufacturing it is tested
for macro-biological contaminants, such as strep, e Coli, or
salmonella.
Clinical Lab Conditions - No Contamination:
The manufacturing lab is a clinical environment with all stainless
steel construction. To clean the lab we UV sterilize, carbon
filter, reverse osmosis, ozone inject, mix bed de-ionize and
boiler kettle our own water. This procedure is above Kosher
requirements.
Precise Environmental Standards - No Contamination:
Each room has its own air handler that completely exchanges the
air 50 times per hour. Pure, clean air is a critical element in
manufacturing a pure product. There are so many contaminants in
the air that a state of the art air scrubbing system is a
necessity. Many facilities just have a dust handler and rely on
the air conditioning system to fight to replace the air. You might
as well make the product in a parking lot. The temperature is at a
constant 71 degrees and the humidity is less than 35%.
Particle Sizing Means Greater Absorbency: The key element of our manufacturing process is particle sizing.
We use cold process pulverization to take all particles to the
same size. Smaller particle size means that the body assimilates
the elements more readily.
Ingredients come in different particle sizes. Picture BBs,
ping-pong balls, golf balls, baseballs, softballs and basketballs.
Improper mixing yields batches that have all of the basketballs
balls at the top and the BBs at the bottom. This would mean that
each capsule has a different mix of ingredients (those early in
the loading process - too many basketballs).
Every Capsule Is Within a 1% Weight Tolerance:
At the end of the production process, checks are run to insure the
product weighs what it should. Industry standards allow +/- 5%
failure tolerances. We insist on a tolerance of +/- 1%. Many
manufacturers cut corners here. It is in their interest to do so
as 5% less material in each capsule adds up to serious costs saved
over time.
Acceptable Contamination Levels are 1/10th of Industry
Standards:
Finally, a macro-biological test is done to make sure that the lab
didn't contaminate the product. Vaxa's standards are 1000% higher
than what the industry allows.
In the end, each batch comes with a Certificate of Analysis and
has a National Drug Control Number. Once Vaxa products are
manufactured and packaged, the product is then tested by lot to
ensure quality, stability, consistency, weight, and content. Time
series and dating analysis are performed twice on all lots, first
at the lab and then when received as a finished product by Vaxa.
Strict controls of inventory dating and ongoing computer
evaluations are performed daily while total rechecks of inventory
are performed each month.
All Vaxa products, once manufactured and packaged are then tested
by lot to ensure quality control, stability, consistency, weight,
and content. Time series and dating analysis are performed twice
on all lots. First where the materials were produced and later
when received as finished product by Vaxa.
The strictest controls of inventory dating and ongoing computer
evaluations are performed daily while total recheck of inventory
are performed each month.
As you can see, Vaxa shares your passion for health and well being
and is obsessed with offering the highest quality homeopathic
nutraceutical products on the market. Vaxa promises is to deliver
high impact products with synergistic formulations and the highest
quality ingredients manufactured with intense attention to detail.
