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Exceptional attention to Quality
Guaranteed through audited GMP processes
Guaranteed through audited GMP processes
Proline Botanicals is a quality driven organisation,
and this is especially reflected in the way we seek out
high-quality raw materials and continuously enhance
our production techniques and specifications.
We have applied consistency to our specifications across the range offered. We offer two strengths: 1:1 fluid extracts and 1:3 tinctures. This is designed to reduce the confusion of the varied specifications offered across a range. You will not find 1:4 tinctures blended in with 1:3s, nor will you find 2:5 for example.
Due to the problems with product leeching into poly ethylene and highly xeno-estrogenic plasticisers from polyethylene leeching into herbal extracts, we have chosen amber, recyclable, PET bottles to pack and transport our extracts. These bottles eliminate the leeching problem, while the ambering protects the valuable extracts from light.
More on our quality processes.
We have applied consistency to our specifications across the range offered. We offer two strengths: 1:1 fluid extracts and 1:3 tinctures. This is designed to reduce the confusion of the varied specifications offered across a range. You will not find 1:4 tinctures blended in with 1:3s, nor will you find 2:5 for example.
Due to the problems with product leeching into poly ethylene and highly xeno-estrogenic plasticisers from polyethylene leeching into herbal extracts, we have chosen amber, recyclable, PET bottles to pack and transport our extracts. These bottles eliminate the leeching problem, while the ambering protects the valuable extracts from light.
More on our quality processes.
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- Assessment of deliveries prior to admission into the warehouse.
- Materials sampling, sample identification, assessment and approval.
- Warehouse GMP : hygiene, stock rotation, pest control, obtaining materials for production, materials returns and stock control.
- Herb and powders packing procedures, staff training and personal hygiene, product specifications, batch documentation, calibration of equipment, weighing, packing, labelling, pre-pack room hygiene, sampling, sample identification, assessment, QC testing programme, QC release.
- Particle reduction procedures and documentation, staff training and personal hygiene, product specifications, product sampling, sample evaluation, QC tests, QC release, mill room cleaning procedures..
- Wet room procedures, base material preparation and control, QC evaluation, materials handling, staff training and personal hygiene, specifications, production control, process documentation, product sampling, QC tests, QC release PB/SOP5/QC5.4/5.5, wet room cleaning procedures, staff training and personal hygiene
- Encapsulation procedure, product specifications, process documentation, equipment calibration, sampling, weighing, weigh evaluation and corrective action, QC release, testing, staff training and personal hygiene
- Pessaries and suppositories manufacturing procedure, specifications, process documentation, hygiene procedures, QC evaluation and testing programme, staff training and personal hygiene
- Applies only to specific products where the ethanol removal is required as part off the manufacturing process. QA refers to: production documents, process documents, intermediate product approval, monitoring quantities of product and by product. Between batches cleaning procedures, Staff training and personnel hygiene procedures SOP as above
- Applies to all liquid blending processes, where starting materials are: crude liquids, intermediates, finished products. Regarding: product specifications, production documents, quality control of starting materials. Correct weighing / measuring procedure, line hygiene, staff training and personnel hygiene
- Filling liquid bulk into final packaging on individual fill lines and hand filling. Sample check, QC approval check, controlled label issue, controlled issue of packaging, production documents, line clearance procedures, hygiene procedures, personnel hygiene procedures
- Packaging materials control, labelling, correct labelling of final packaging, finished product storage and control, despatch procedures, QC tests, positive release and product certification, process documentation, documentation control, self inspection
Proline QualityWe recognise that quality is a total concept. Among the many aspects we consider when looking at our overall quality commitment are:
Cleanliness and hygiene
Selection of raw materials
Organic vs. non organic issues
Fresh vs. dried issues
Extraction techniques
Active components
Energetics and feel
Packaging
All of the above, combined with the philosophy and
integrity of the company, go to make up our Quality
Policy.
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| You may be confident that every ingredient and every product has been tested in accordance with our GMP status, giving you complete peace of mind that our products are correctly identified and meet the exacting standards set by Proline Botanicals. | We have created what we believe to be the United Kingdom’s most modern facility dedicated to the processing of herbs and the production of herbal extracts and tinctures. | Designed to exceed current regulations and with a view to tightened future regulations, we invite groups of practitioners to inspect our site, which is located near Stamford by appointment. | |||
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| Our products are primarily cold percolated. Percolation is the more efficient of the two primary extraction techniques (the other being maceration). The basic principle of extraction is the creation of a concentration gradient between the solvent and the solute. The greater the gradient, the more efficient the extraction. | Proline Botanicals is engaged in a continuous programme of technique improvement and has investigated many techniques, including maceration, percolation, decoction, infusion and distillation. In each case we compare the profile of the original plant material to the profile of the extract, and quantify the dissolved herbal ingredients. |
When one percolates a tincture or fluid extract, the solvent is in continuous motion against the plant material, maintaining a concentration gradient throughout the process. This allows for the greater extraction of those vital plant ingredients, and leads to less waste of our valuable herbal resources. | |||
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| All of our processes are carried out in dedicated clean rooms, with appropriate sloping floors, drainage, extraction and surface coverings. All work surfaces are stainless steel. Each room is cleaned meticulously on a daily basis to a set procedure (monitored constantly by our QA department). |
Our dried herbs and powders are stored and packed in air tight foil packs, which are nitrogen purged to reduce oxygen content. The storage of our bulk products in this way improves the overall quality of our raw materials, particularly at the end of the season prior to new crop harvests. | Proline Botanicals holds a Manufacturers License (number 27532), issued by the Medicines Inspectorate. This was granted following a rigorous GMP inspection by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). |