New Product Development
Our team of experts combine ancient wisdom and modern science and create safe and effective herbal products
Herbal Formulations
The global demand for Ayurvedic and other traditional forms of medicine/ products is steadily growing as the world’s population grows. Consumers are becoming more health-conscious in buying food products, and more people are turning to herbal supplements for their health than drugs. Given the high demand for herbal products (Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy), global regulatory authorities are rigorously scrutinizing the quality, safety, and efficacy of herbal components and final products. Knowing the safety implication of botanical ingredients can help business to follow the required safety standards in manufacturing the products.
Herbal products are regulated under different classifications, including traditional herbal medicines, supplements, over-the-counter medicines, natural health products and complementary medicines. Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha forms the category of traditional medicine. The definition of Botanical ingredients can guide the manufacturers to use the appropriate parts to add in ingredients.
There are significant legislative and product approval problems that international common laws should link to move forward by lowering the potential for conflict between our herbal regulatory approaches and creating tighter collaboration. By knowing acceptable and correct herbal ingredients, safety regulations, clinical study advantages, innovative technology, and numerous analytical studies, we can assist you in meeting those global regulatory compliances.
Our high-quality natural herbal ingredients with protective and therapeutic functions derived from natural sources and innovative production techniques start in FRL R&D lab. Botanical identification characteristics using macroscopic and microscopic analysis employed by FRL R&D Lab helps in understanding the complexities involved in ensuring accurate plant identification in herbal and botanical studies.
Global Contract Food Research lab (FRL) uses its years of research & herbal product development, positioning itself as a reliable worldwide herbal supplement and herbal-based food product development partner, assisting customers in reducing project risk and accelerating time to market. We offer Herbal based products that include dietary supplements in the form of food and beverages.
We offer the following services, according to customer requirements
We comply with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) guidelines/
We can formulate the products in the form of a solution, suspension, emulsion, syrups, lotion, gel, cream, aqueous microdispersion, pill, Chewable and non-chewable Tablets formulations – a comprehensive range of shapes and sizes, with the sustained release – coated with film, sugar, enteric, Capsules, Gummies, Soft gels, Power blends, granules, and Sachets/stick packs. We use ingredients that offer an added value to the development and improve its indulgence and sustainability in terms of its functional ingredients, plant-based food dyes, and natural preservatives with a clean label. Refer to the article “Botanical identification characteristics using macroscopic and microscopic analysis” to know the characteristics of plant parts that will be used for herbal product development.
Our current range fits perfectly with current consumer trends that include Vegan, Vegetarian, Kosher formulas, Low sugar/sugar-free, clean label, Non-GMO, Plant-based proteins and Whole food formulations
At FRL, we develop products that address communicable and non-communicable or chronic or systemic diseases, including diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer, cardiovascular, kidney disease and many more.
Having a well-designed program backed by flawless data is essential for maintaining control over your product’s quality from start to end. We perform quality assurance testing through our full-service laboratory, The Food Research Lab, to assist you in verifying that your formulation prototype’s consistent quality is an advantage to your business. Microbiology analysis, nutritional analysis, and diverse food chemistry analyses are some of the services we provide to our clients.
We deliver nutritional products for sensory and master data records of product, process and packaging information. This includes raw material specifications (type/subtype), metal testing, nutritional analysis, physical/chemical data, kosher/Halal information, GMO Status, microbiological status, supplier information, vendor ingredient line declarations, vendor warrants and guarantees, cost data, certificate analysis of requirement, regulatory data, test methods, allergen data, shipping and handling info, safety document (MSDS or SDS), proprietary info, sensory and quality information.
We have a list of vendors who can supply us with the product required for an R&D. All our vendors have been scrutinised based on the stringent quality criteria in terms of certificates they hold and the experience they have in the product line. We ensure 99% consistency in all the ingredients and will share the final list of ingredients and the vendor lists as part of our SOP. We consider more than one supplier of the same product to test quality and cost-effectiveness. If more than one supplier is used, tight product specifications will be followed. However, all ingredients will undergo basic testing before it moves to the product development phase.
Our sensory examination leads to the precise formulation and recipe recommendations. We develop data-driven design models based on sensory research and customer insights. The fact-based design methodology used by FRL reduces risk and gives our clients market confidence while cutting development time in half. With our dedicated sensory lab facility, our team takes satisfaction in creating and optimizing successful products in the marketplace, generating a favourable return on investment, and developing brand advocates
We have an in-house dedicated multidisciplinary team with expertise in food science, consumer and sensory science research, microbiology, ingredient development, biochemistry, culinary arts, regulatory, and manufacturing design. As such, we can deliver a high-calibre product with the expertise of emerging and cutting-edge technologies (e.g. technologies in food preservation – High Hydrostatic pressure methodology HHP, dielectric heating, pulsed light, bacteriocins; extractive emerging technologies: ultrasound-assisted extraction, ohmic heating, high pressure, supercritical fluid extraction and microwave-assisted extraction) and suitable facilities to conduct scientific and technical tests. Our experts are very facile around new food product development with vast categories of herbal product lines.
Food Research Lab strives for excellence in new Food, Beverage and Nutraceutical Product Research and Development by offering cutting edge scientific analysis and expertise.