What Does Gmp Mean?

FERNDALE, WA - So a great question that was asked of me this week is what does GMP mean. Simply put, GMP means Good Manufacturing Practice. It refers to a internationally recognized system of checking products in the natural health industry (and in the food / pharmaceutical industry) from the stage when they are formulated until the ingredients are bottled and then labeled, and distributed to the stores. In a nut shell, it's a quality control check through every step of the manufacturing process ensuring that the delivered and final product is absolutely 100 percent of the highest quality possible, safe for consumption, not contaminated, and it has been made in a consistent manner.

So where does that leave us? Not very far I would say. We should delve into this a tad more to really come to grips with the implications of GMP and what it means for you as a consumer of natural medicines or other products such as pet vitamins or supplements or herbal pet remedies.

The first thing to note is that either your products are made under GMP practices or they are not. If they are manufactured according to this methodology of checking product quality at every stage, you can rest assured that they are -- yup! First Class

Whoever bottled and made the product from raw ingredients has done a superior job and really has their act together. Its worth it for you as a buyer to check the company background out on the web if you can or ask, or ask if this particular firm operates using GMP, then whatever they have created is simply the best it can be. Its bottled correctly and safely, and once again the process of manufacture has been consistent from one month to the next and so on so as to ensure quality.

In the United States and in Canada, GMP is enforced buy the US Food and Drug administration (FDA) and by Health Canada and in both countries each agency makes sure that the manufacturing process is clearly defined and controlled and that all critical processes are validated to ensure consistency and compliance with specifications.

So apart from what the government does on a daily basis, inside a company GMP manifests itself in the form of daily checks on the assembly line, keeping very tight and accurate records of every batch of herbal remedy or medical product that is created, and then quality control testing samples in a hermetically sealed lab space by a well trained technician.

At the company that I ran as Chief Enterprise Officer, we had full-time staff who checked everything and we kept a lab space and fridges where we stored our batch samples, and then of course records and records; and we need to keep these records so we could figure out if something had to be recalled, we could track it down and then have it pulled from store shelves if it ever came to that. Of course it never did at any of the companies I operated.

Regarding the products we offer, before we got into our present business, what we did was do significant background checks on the manufacturers we represent by following backwards their manufacturing process, so we know first hand that everything we sell is made under the guidelines of GMP. That lets us sleep properly at night, maintains our brand image and affords our customers the highest level of quality assurance that the industry provides.

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