STR is a leading provider of quality assurance services to the dietary supplement industry through its Shuster Laboratories division. Shuster works with many of the top manufacturers, suppliers, marketers, distributors, and retailers of dietary supplements to ensure that their products meet required purity, potency, and quality standards. Our QA programs also help ensure that companies are in compliance with proposed FDA Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs). Through our customized programs, companies can achieve the highest level of credibility and protection available for their products.
Services for dietary supplements include:
- Development of customized quality assurance programs.
- Laboratory testing to ensure compliance to DSHEA, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), and the proposed FDA GMPs for potency, purity, and stability. Compendial and in-house validated methods are used in analytical testing.
- Facility audits for GMP compliance.
- HACCP programs and audits to help ensure product safety.
- Standard operating procedures (SOP) development and implementation.
- Development of product specifications.
- Substantiation of structure and function claims.
- Stability studies to establish expiry dating.
- Method development and validation, including expertise in herbal/botanical products.
- Microbiological studies.
- Label review.
- Regulatory consultation.
Shuster's microbiology and analytical chemistry laboratories participate continuously in and meet the high standards of proficiency testing programs.
For more information, please visit www.shusterlabs.com.
