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Investing in Health Supplement Manufacturing Facility
05 things to be considered!

Manufacture of Health Supplements is a conditional business line.

According to the Decree No.15/2018/ND-CP, effective from 01 July 2019, Health supplements manufacturing facilities are required to apply Good manufacturing practices for health supplements (HS GMP) in accordance with the guideline of Ministry of Health.

On 17 July 2019, the Ministry of Health issued Circular No.18/2019/TT-BYT providing guidelines on Good manufacturing practices (GMP) that applied to the production and trade of health supplements.

A health supplement product can be legally announced and circulated only if it was produced at a facility with Certificate of Good manufacturing practices in Health Supplement (referred to as “HS GMP”)

Compliance with HS GMP guideline brings many benefits for enterprises, the biggest benefit is to affirm the product quality and build branch trust in customers awareness.

•  An effective tool to ensure food safety (ATTP)
•  Ability to proactively prevent food contamination during the production
•  Screening and removing unqualified health supplement manufacturing facilities
•  Continuously keep update food safety issues & trends to never be outdated.
•  Be the legal prerequisites for enterprises to export products to foreign countries.

1. Health Supplement (Food Supplement, Dietary Supplement) is the product that is used to supplement a diet to maintain, support or improve the healthy functions of the human body, reduce the risk of disease. A health supplement must contain one or more, or a combination of the following ingredients:
a) Vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, enzyme, probiotic and other bio-active subtances.
b) Substances derived from natural sources, including animal, mineral and botanical materials in the forms of extracts, isolates, concentrates and transforms.
c) Synthetic sources of the ingredients mentioned at the above points.
2. A health supplement must be presented in a dosage forms such as capsules, pills, tablets, granules, powder, liquids and other dosage forms, and must be administered in small unit doses (to use).

Established since May 25, 2011 GMPc proud to have been the pioneer consultant in providing a comprehensive and turnkey consulting model for GMP-certified facility projects.
Having competent manager, GMP experts and professional team of staff including pharmacists, engineers, chemists,..with several years experiences on GMP practices at large-scales factories, we have always been dedicating ourselves into each commissioned project while adhering to the core value of Get GMP – Get what you want!
GMPc has been trusted by most nationwide investors with over 230+ GMP-certified facility projects, which equals to more than 80% market share in Vietnam from 2011 to 2023. Because of customer's faith, we ensure to be always do our best to create and contribute the consulting solutions that Simplification - Cost Optimization - Guaranteed Certification on the basis of understanding the needs and differentiation strategy of each customer.

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" NIMM is a direct unit under Vietnam Ministry of Health, with the mission of scientific research and promoting comprehensive technological developments of medicinal materials, as well as consulting the Ministry of Health on the methods of development medicinal materials, modernizing oriental (traditional) medicine, pharmaceutical production and business, giving training to cadres in this field.
NIMM choose GMPc as our consultant in facility evaluation, GMP training and drafting GMP registration dossier.
I highly appriciate the capacity, knowledge as well as GMP/GLP/GSP practices in medicinal materials production of GMPc Vietnam."

"Hai duong central college of pharmacy is public training institute and also research center for application of science and technology into the production, business and services on pharmacy, cosmetic, health supplements.
Thanks to GMPc's consulting service on facility infrastructure and  GMP/GLP/GSP training, we has successfully accomplished the pharmaceutical business and research center project with GMP certification approved by VFA.
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