MANUFACTURING

Dr. Royal Lee, founder of Standard Process, said, "Whole foods are the best natural source of vitamins. The key to the highest quality is the manufacturing process." At Standard Process, we are involved from the moment a seed is planted through shipping the finished product to your door.

Because preserving the whole food complex is a top priority when manufacturing our supplements, we carefully follow time-proven formulas based on Dr. Lee's philosophies. Our manufacturing process, from raw materials to finished product, takes an average of six weeks. Throughout the process, raw materials are handled in a carefully controlled environment and continually tested for quality.

Exclusive Manufacturing Processes
In order to produce the highest quality whole food supplements, Standard Process utilizes the following processes to manufacture its products. Each process is custom engineered to preserve the nutrients of the raw materials.

Grinding
Whole foods grown on our certified organic farmland, such as Brussels sprouts and carrots, are harvested and then carefully ground.

Juice Extraction
To capture the nutrients from raw materials (such as buckwheat, alfalfa, and peas), the juice is pressed from the plants and separated from the pulp. Since conventional water-separating methods do not always retain the valuable fat-soluble nutrients found in food, we utilize a separating process to extract all the liquids, not just the water fraction. The result is a concentrated product laden with both fat- and water-soluble nutrients.

Separation Process
Selected specific animal tissues used to make our Protomorphogen™ and Cytosol™ extracts are ground to create a liquid slurry. The slurry is subjected to our exclusive multistep separation methods to obtain the cell determinants and cytosolic fractions, respectively. Animal tissues are obtained exclusively from USDA certified facilities.

Low-Temperature, High-Vacuum Dryers
Raw materials are slowly dried in our exclusive, low-temperature, high-vacuum dryers to preserve the nutrients in them.

Continuing the Process

Mixing
Dried materials are measured and mixed with the utmost precision. Because of the variability in sources of natural and organic ingredients, color and odor may vary from batch to batch. However, the basic formula remains constant, and quality is ensured by repeat testing.

Binding
Only natural binding ingredients, such as honey and arabic gum, are used in our tablet manufacturing process. Cellulose is often used to give body to the powders. Calcium stearate, derived from vegetable sources, is used as a lubricant in our tablet machines. No artificial flavoring is ever used.

Tablets, Capsules, and Powders
Our whole food supplements are offered in several forms of delivery. The three most common are tablets, capsules, and powders.

Tablets
One of the tablet presses used by Standard Process is computer monitored and measures the weight, density, and thickness of the tablets. This allows for high volume production without sacrificing quality control in the manufacturing process. Currently, our tableting department yields close to 90 products. All of our finished tablets are routinely analyzed for content to ensure that label claims are accurate.

Capsules
High-tech computers monitor our capsuling machines to ensure that precise amounts of product are measured and enclosed in our natural gelatin capsules. One of the capsule machines used by Standard Process has an internal computer system that is programmed for the specifications of each product, and it ejects defective capsules. The capsuling department currently produces nearly 50 products through the use of 4 capsule machines.

Powders
In order to fill our powder formulas, Standard Process uses a computer-controlled digitronic filler. This system achieves very accurate fills and provides a highly consistent product from batch to batch.

Packaging
The final product is sealed in amber glass bottles. The color of the glass helps protect the food's nutrients from damaging light, while the sealed bottle helps prevent product oxidation. Induction lids and bottleneck seals protect against product tampering. The bottled product is then labeled and packaged in cardboard boxes for easy storage, protection, and shipping.