OUR QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES INCLUDE:

Quarantining all incoming raw materials immediately upon receipt from pre-qualified suppliers.
Subjecting the quarantined raw materials to analysis prior to their release to production.
Analyzing a formulation after blending a product to confirm ingredient accuracy and potency.
Conducting in-process inspections throughout manufacturing, including fill-weight, hardness, thickness, disintegration and friability, as well as other tests for compliance verification.
Visually inspecting every finished unit dose to prevent the packaging of cosmetically substandard products.
Quarantining finished goods until Quality Control chemists complete a final analysis and confirm that the product is correct.
Retaining bottled samples of each production batch by QA/QC for future reference.

Paragon's technical experts use the most advanced methods to ensure the identity, purity, quality, strength and composition of raw materials and finished products.

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Providing Over 100 Years of Combinded Expertise

We believe the only way to provide you with superior-quality supplements is for us to have control over every facet of manufacturing—from receipt of raw materials through analysis of finished goods. That's why we've devoted so much energy and so many resources to the full-service laboratories we have on-site at Paragon.

Our labs are equipped with the latest analytical instrumentation. And they're staffed with highly educated professional Chemists, Biochemists, and Microbiologists. Together they provide well over a hundred years of technical experience in the natural products industry.

Because our labs are on-site, we can quickly address analytical issues. This is a critical factor in enabling us to produce your supplements under the most stringent product specifications while simultaneously adhering to extremely tight shipping schedules.

OUR ANALYTICAL, MICROBIAL AND PHYSICAL LAB TESTING INCLUDES:

Accelerated shelf-life stability
Atomic absorption
Disintegration and dissolution
Fill-weight, hardness and thickness
Fluorescent spectrophotometry
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
Friability
High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Infrared (IR) spectrophotometry
Microbiological testing
Microsopic image analysis
Oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC)
Particle size distribution analysis
Thin layer chromatography (TLC)
Ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) spectrophotometry