We believe that the whole team throughout the organization must embrace a commitment to quality to deliver our quality values. These values are not aimed at just complying to minimum manufacturing standards, but at ensuring the health benefits of our products. Any claimed benefit must be supported by documented evidence relevant to the dose.

Regular audits are carried out to maintain the Food and Therapeutic licences held by Nutra-Life Health & Fitness. The audits are conducted by:

• Medsafe New Zealand
• New Zealand Food Safety Authority

Our company operates on the philosophy of continual improvement, and maintains the quality and integrity of its products and processes through regular in-house quality audits, GMP training programmes and extensive testing procedures. The manufacturing plant is also Halal approved by local Islamic authorities.

Nutra-Life's team of quality assurance staff operates Nutra-Life's high tech laboratory and are the key to measuring and improving quality standards. This team administers the rigorous testing carried out on raw materials, blended and finished product. In addition quality assurance checks are carried out throughout the entire manufacturing process.

Nutra-Life Health & Fitness has comprehensive traceability systems in place to ensure that every item can be tracked and traced to any point within the manufacturing, packing and dispatch process.

In addition, there is strict environmental monitoring of plant and equipment to eliminate chances of contamination.

Soon all products produced by Nutra-Life Health & Fitness will include the highest level of tamper-evident packaging. Bottles containing capsules and tablets will have an induction seal under the cap and a tear cap on the bottle. All boxed products will use the blister pack and clear over-wrap to detect tampering

RAW MATERIAL QUALITY ASSURANCE
Nutra-Life Health & Fitness purchases its raw materials only from suppliers and manufacturers who have been rigorously audited to ensure they meet the high standards Nutra-Life demands of an "approved supplier". The first four batches of all raw materials undergo full testing to confirm compliance.

Once the company is satisfied, all subsequent batches are tested to identify and quantify the active principles of the material. The benefits and efficacy of Nutra-Life's finished products depends on the quality of the active ingredients, as these tests are vital to the consumer.

MANUFACTURING QUALITY ASSURANCE
Once the raw material has been tested and approved, it is released into production for the manufacturing process. Process testing is conducted at regular intervals in the process against standards for uniformity.

Blended products also undergo testing - with ongoing control checks throughout the entire production and manufacturing process. Following laboratory approval the blended product can be converted into tablets or capsules.

FINISHED PRODUCT QUALITY ASSURANCE

Once manufacturing is completed, finished product testing is carried out to ensure the finished products meet the standards of the British Pharmacopoeia (BP) and export market requirements.

Finished product is then packaged into bottles or blister packs and labeled with process checks once again. A final quality check is carried out before the product is released for dispatch. Samples of the packaged product are retained for future reference and as part of the ongoing stability-testing programme. The stability programme monitors the product under temperature controlled environments throughout the stable shelf life of the product, to assure it will continue to deliver the level of actives on the label.

NUTRA-LIFE QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAMME INCLUDES RAW MATERIAL ACTIVITY TESTING to verify the level of actives in each material via highly specialised methods such as HPLC (high pressure liquid chromatography) and to ensure against contaminants such as heavy metals

MICROBIOLOGICAL TESTING for assurance against bacterial contamination

TABLET AND CAPSULE DISINTEGRATION TESTING to ensure that the tablets and capsules disintegrate in the body so that the actives are available

STABILITY TESTING to ensure product stability and performance throughout the life of the product

IN LINE PROCESS TESTING to ensure the consistency and quality of the product throughout the production cycle

PRODUCTION SITE TESTING to ensure that the plant is clean and that the conditions are optimal for manufacturing and packing including rigorous testing of air flows and air control