Founded in 1924, Anabolic Laboratories formulates and manufactures clinical nutrition products. Our expertise in pharmaceutical manufacturing, patient programs, and clinician training sets the standard for health care professionals.

Who Audits Anabolic Laboratories?

We receive regular inspections by the:

• FDA (Every 18 months approximately)
• MCA (Medicines Control Authority (UK)
• DEA (Anabolic makes Type II narcotics)
• USDA (Can make Certified Organic products)
• NPA (Voluntary Nutritional /Audit)
• Scores of independent companies
  • (We manufacture products for some of the largest companies in the world, including unique molecular entities, prescription only pharmaceuticals, and natural medicines such as codeine.)

Laboratory Expertise

This section briefly describes the major instrumental techniques used in our laboratories. As a federally regulated and inspected pharmaceutical manufacturer, Anabolic Laboratories must comply with laws and regulations that are significantly more stringent, enough so that one cannot reasonably compare our operations to that of a food/nutrition-only company. We use other instruments not listed here (meters, probes, thermometers, chambers, centrifuges which must all be monitored and calibrated) for daily routine and monograph testing.

A monograph is a set of test procedures published by a well-recognized organization such as US Pharmacopeia (USP), European Pharmacopeia (EP), Japan Pharmacopeia (JP), the American Organization of Analytical Chemists (AOAC), or the Food Chemical Codex (FCC). These procedures are recognized by all regulatory agencies as official methods of analysis and the monographs are preferred procedures. These specify ingredient assays required to assure acceptability of the material for human use. In addition to the actual procedure to be followed, monographs list specific lab tools, techniques, instrumentation, reference standards and detection techniques. As such, the results from a laboratory rigorously following a monograph can be directly compared with the results from other laboratories, industry standards, and government inspection

The only way we can insure the quality of our product is to test (assay) them. We boast several dozen experienced, degreed chemists and microbiologists to verify the quality and potency of incoming ingredients, sanitary manufacturing processes and finished product quality.

We maintain extensive state-of-the art laboratories in-house for an obvious reason– we cannot guarantee the potency, purity, or even meeting label claims by relying upon outside laboratories.

We assay every incoming raw material -even though every material we receive comes with a Certificate of Assay from the supplier – which means it has already been third party tested. Some companies boast of this fact. But every year we return thousands and thousands of kilos of raw materials that do not pass our initial QC procedures. The only way to know if the raw material is correct, safe, and potent, is to test it.

We test all raw materials, we test during production processes, and we test the finished product. We keep retained samples in extended periods of storage for stability testing. Our products require a full battery of assays and physical tests to properly qualify before release to the professional market.

Our in-house laboratory expenses run well over $150,000 every month. It would be cost prohibitive to pay an outside company for all of this testing, as we maintain rigorous product specifications that must be met. In addition our in-house laboratories are federally audited pharmaceutical laboratories, which are not commonplace.

All Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA) personnel, procedures and instruments are located in our QC laboratories at each of our pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in California and Colorado.

In addition to our qualified staff of scientists, many of our instruments are of the latest design and manufacture, equipped with the current Code of Federal Regulations 11- compliant software. All equipment is kept under full-time maintenance with calibration contracts from the manufacturer. This assures that our instruments are always properly calibrated and functioning, keeps instrument down-time to a minimum and helps keeps Anabolic Laboratories in compliance with our numerous government agencies, audits and inspections.

Anabolic Laboratories is routinely inspected by the United States Food and Drug Agency (USFDA) as well as experienced auditors from other agencies and organizations, such as the Medicines Control Authority (MCA) and the Natural Products Association (NPA formally NNfA).

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