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Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods

Your Strategic Advantage

The nutraceutical, dietary supplement and functional food industries are highly competitive. Use POS Pilot Plant to gain advantages in these areas:

  • Enter markets sooner
  • Overcome regulatory hurdles
  • Supplement your resources for greater profits.

You will access:

Total Capability Under One Roof:

  • Process and product development
  • Product standardization
  • Analytical methods development
  • Process scale-up
  • Ingredient sourcing
  • Shelf life testing
  • Regulatory compliance
  • HACCP protocols and GMP plans
  • Antioxidant evaluation
  • Process and product optimization
  • Consulting
  • Complete quality support including: cGMP, HACCP, CFIA and HPB compliance
  • Comprehensive process documentation
  • Analytical services integrated into each processing step
  • Strict confidentiality protocols
  • Product development from grams to tons
  • Diverse solvent extraction capabilities with many different solvents and raw materials
  • ISO 9001:2008 certified

Access Unique Processing Equipment:
POS will lead you from concept to bench scale testing to pilot scale development and finally to market production - all in one facility. Our equipment list is especially suited to nutraceutical, dietary supplements, and functional food products. Here is a partial list.

Milling & Mixing

Mills - Hammer, pin, flaking, cracking, disc, Szego, colloid, comminuting, dehullers
Mixers - Wet and dry mixers including Hobart mixer/dicer, ribbon, twin shell blender, homogenizers

Extraction (solvent and/or aqueous)

Extractors: Crown, Soxhlet, Heinkel inverting basket centrifuge
Desolventization: Various units for solids and liquid desolventization

Drying and Evaporating

Dryers: Vacuum tray, fluidized bed, convection, drum, ring, tunnel and freeze
Evaporators: Flash, thin film, scraped surface, rising film

Separation Equipment

Chromatography: CPC (Centrifugal partitioning chromatograph), pilot scale HPLC
Filtration: Plate and frame, cartridge, ultrafiltration units, Air Classifiers, Centrifugal and gravity
Centrifuges: Decanter, desludger, solid bowl, basket, inverting basket, nozzle bowl

Other Equipment

Littleford reactor/dryer oilseed crushing and complete oils processing line pasteurization

The above is just a partial list of equipment. We regularly acquire new equipment suitable for the nutraceutical, dietary supplement, and functional food industries. For more complete information on these resources, please contact us. All discussions are confidential.

Photos of processing areas and equipment for custom manufacturing and product development.
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