Dietary Supplements
AAL Dietary Supplement Testing - AAL's Dietary Supplements Testing department is staffed with skilled scientists that have expertise in vitamins and minerals analysis, dietary supplements and enzymes, functional foods, and botanical/herbal supplements.
AAL's nutraceutical lab is equipped with state-of-the art instruments, such as HPLC, gas chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, ICP mineral analysis, and ion chromatography.
As of June 2007, FDA - DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act) is
fully implemented and enforces cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice)
requirements on Dietary Supplements Manufacturing.
DSHEA 1994 definition:
FDA /USDA set a maximum daily dose for essential vitamin and nutrient as part of the nutritional label claim. |
List of Dietary Supplement (Nutritional Supplement) Testing Services
- Vitamin Testing (Oil Soluble Vitamin, Water Soluble Vitamin)
- Mineral Testing (such as Calcium Gluconate, Calcium Citrate, etc.)
- Nutrient (Glucosamine, Chondroitin Sulfate, Co-Q10, etc.)
- Antioxidant Activity in Natural Products
- Natural Products: Fruit, Berries, Vegetable (Anthocyanin)
- Amino Acid (Essential, Non-essential)
- Essential Fatty Acid (DHA, EPA, CLA, etc.)
- Dietary Enzymes (Amylase, Lipase, B-galactosidase or Lactase, Papain, Bromelein, etc.)
- Botanical, Phytochemistry, Herbal Active Testing
- USP <561>, Contaminant and Foreign Substance