NP Nutra introduces Triple-T Verification Program
26 Sep 2017 --- Nature’s Power Nutraceuticals Corp (NP Nutra), a wholesale supplier of premium nutraceutical ingredients is to launch its Triple-T Verification Program at Supply Side West, which aims to guarantee the quality and traceability of its supply chain.
The company reports that the majority of its partner facilities have attained GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) certification status, under which accredited third-party schemes such as BRC (British Retail Consortium), SQF (Safe Quality Food) and FSSC (Food Safety System Certification) provide comprehensive guidance at each step of the supply chain process.
“NP Nutra has been working diligently over the past few years to build solid relationships with our manufacturing partners and their growers, taking all possible steps to ensure the traceability of our supply chain and the quality of our products. Our Triple-T Verification Program is a direct result of this collaboration and hard work,” says Helga Villanueva, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Compliance Director at NP Nutra.
“The demand for supply chain transparency, ingredient quality and sustainability in the nutraceutical industry has never been more crucial. Triple-T Verification aims to bring customers trust and peace of mind, knowing that NP Nutra has performed our due diligence to supply pure, traceable ingredients - sustainably sourced, of the highest quality and purity and processed at certified state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities,” founder and CEO Thomas Walton adds.
“There will always be supply chain challenges. We are dealing with a variability of natural raw materials and the complex task of tracing the path of ingredients from their point of origin, through our partner facilities and into our customers’ hands. The Triple-T Verification Program has been developed to overcome these challenges and ensure compliance with our standards and specifications,” Walton adds.
In a recent interview with NutritionInsight, Margaret Gomes, Director of Marketing at NP Nutra, spoke about the company’s efforts to ensure the quality of its non-GMO and organic ingredients.
“Too often we have come across certified organic ingredients which contain pesticide residues or test positive for GMOs. NP Nutra’s sourcing department perform our due diligence to ensure that all our certified organic ingredients are free of pesticide residues and GMOs, and of the best quality,” Gomes notes.
However, Gomes views challenges in ingredient testing methods more as an opportunity to set the company apart from others in the industry.
“NP Nutra works closely with its manufacturing partners around the world to educate them about the need for genuine organic and sustainable cultivation methods. Just obtaining a certificate is not enough. Because our growers know that we perform third-party lab tests for each lot, they are very careful to produce crops with high nutrient content and low heavy metal results. Every lot that NP Nutra offers to the marketplace can be traced back to the farmer's tract of land where it was harvested.”
According to the comapny, beginning with pure raw materials, NP Nutra’s ingredients are meticulously examined by the company’s Quality Control teams and selected to meet specific criteria.
Stringent in-house quality control and third-party validation guarantee safety and compliance to regulations and consistent conformance to our quality standards. Each production lot is tested in certified ISO/IEC17025 labs for:
• Organoleptics
• Over 75 known pesticides (USP)
• Heavy metals (ICP-MS) including cadmium, lead, mercury and arsenic, and
• Microbials (AOAC/USP) including mold, E-coli and staphylococcus.
Each of NP Nutra’s manufacturing partners has passed a strict Vendor Qualification Program which includes interviews, assessments, visits to farms and regular audits to manufacturing facilities to verify our high product specifications.
The majority of the company’s partner facilities have attained GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) certification status, under which accredited third party schemes like BRC (British Retail Consortium), SQF (Safe Quality Food) and FSSC (Food Safety System Certification) provide comprehensive guidance at each step of the supply chain process.
