FAQS
ABOUT PURE ENCAPSULATIONS:
Why should I purchase supplements for myself and my patients from your company?
Pure Encapsulations provides its customers with the most effective, hypo-allergenic nutritional ingredients available. We do not compromise quality for any reason. When you order Pure Encapsulations' supplements, rest assured that you and your patients will receive the highest quality supplements available.
Do you manufacture your own supplements?
Yes. We manufacture supplements in our own state-of-the-art facility in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and maintain an open plant policy to welcome our customers; it's our best marketing tool. Every step of the manufacturing process exceeds the requirements for nutritional supplement manufacturing. Our dedication to cleanliness is obvious from the moment you enter our plant. A large staff is dedicated full-time to the task of ensuring that every inch of our plant meets the highest standards. Every piece of equipment used in the manufacture of our supplements is dismantled and sterilized before each production run. This includes scales, blenders, powder fillers, encapsulating machines and capsule counters.
What are your Quality Control procedures?
We have built our business by producing the finest supplements possible. Ingredient quality, manufacturing excellence and quality control are our most important priorities. We differentiate ourselves by holding our suppliers to the highest standards and by following strict near-pharmaceutical manufacturing procedures.
Where do you source your ingredients?
Our ingredients are selected solely on the basis of quality and purity and are provided in their most potent and bioavailable forms. We purchase premium raw materials from Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France, and of course the U.S. Manufacturers of ingredients must pass rigorous pharmaceutical grade analytical tests to qualify as Pure Encapsulations suppliers.
Is everything in the capsule listed on the label?
Absolutely. In 1991, Pure Encapsulations pioneered the practice of providing complete ingredient disclosure (Accepted industry practice was to hide or omit allergenic fillers or exipients). Pure Encapsulations supplement labels list all ingredients. Additionally, if an herbal ingredient is listed, our label details the strength of the standardized extract.
Do your products contain wheat, rice, gluten, dairy, fillers, etc?
No. The majority of Pure Encapsulations products are hypo-allergenic. With only a few exceptions, they contain no dairy, yeast or corn. Additionally, they contain no wheat, gluten, sugar, starch, preservatives or hydrogenated oils. Furthermore, our products contain no hidden coatings, excipients, binders, fillers, shellacs, artificial colors or fragrance. Other companies may use magnesium stearate, preservatives, BHA or BHT in their products.
What does hypo-allergenic mean?
The term hypo-allergenic is used to describe products that are free of binders, fillers, excipients, dyes, and common allergens.
What is the hypo-allergenic pant fiber used to fill capsules for some products?
The hypo-allergenic plant fiber Pure Encapsulations uses is a pharmaceutical grade alpha cellulose derived from purified specialty grades of wood pulp from Southern pine. Due to the nature of the raw material (wood pulp) and the manufacturing process, it does not contain alcohol, grain, corn, corn starch, sulfa, sulfites, animal products or gluten. In addition, it is free of pesiticides and heavy metals. There are no known allergens in this plant fiber.
What is the source of Pure Encapsulations Veggie Capsules?
The capsules are made from Southern Pine, grown in the US. The pine is pesticide free.
PRODUCT MANUFACTURING AND INGREDIENTS:
Where do you source your ingredients?
Our ingredients are selected solely on the basis of quality and purity and are provided in their most bioavailable forms. We source premium raw materials from trusted industry leaders, including the finest suppliers from the U.S., France, Japan, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. All ingredients are tested for purity and potency by independent certified laboratories. Ingredient suppliers must meet rigorous testing and quality criteria to qualify as a Pure Encapsulations supplier.
Is everything in the capsule listed on the label?
Our supplement labels have always listed all ingredients, including the composition of the raw material. Additionally, standardizations of herbal extracts are provided to indicate primary active marker compounds. Furthermore, minerals are listed by their true elemental weights.
Are your products kosher?
Our products are not certified as kosher.
Your herbal extracts are standardized. What does this mean?
A standardized extract is one that guarantees the precise concentration of what is considered the active, or pharmacological, ingredient of the herb. When an herbal extract is not standardized, the amount of the key constituent cannot be determined nor can it be consistent from one capsule to the next. Herbs that are standardized provide consistent, maximum nutritional benefits.
Have your bovine-sourced products been tested for mad cow disease?
As a manufacturer of the highest quality nutritional supplements, Pure Encapsulations management and quality control personnel have (since the company's inception in 1991) purchased bovine ingredients from the US, New Zealand and Argentina.
All Pure Encapsulations bovine products are inspected by the USDA and certified to be safe prior to our accepting them into our inventory. There is no practical or theoretical possibility of contracting BSE from any Pure Encapsulations supplement.
Pure Encapsulation's quality control and testing procedures are unsurpassed in the industry, and doctors and their patients can always place the highest trust in the Pure Encapsulations brand.
