Fytexia對體重控制市場的迅速擴展

法國草本植物供應商，Fytexia，為了應付不斷增長的天然原料的需求並試著獲得高等及的歐洲GMP認證,工廠遷移到法國南部地區了.

最暢銷原料是柑橘抽出物的體重控制-Sinetrol的Fytexia表示, 新工廠把生產量將會提高且提供有彈性地可生產越來越多的植物抽出物.

Fytexia的其他原料包含關節健康的芒果抽出物和枸杞抽出物, 被推廣為健康補給品.

Fytexia表示,新廠將協助它在尋求獲得ISO 22000:2005的標準, 這是由ISO(International Standards Organisation) 公布於2005年, 公認為GMPs (Good Manufacturing Processes).

ISO 22000:2005 概述食品安全規範,特別是 “在食物鏈裡與他們的供應商，客戶和相關利益團體討論食品安全問題”.

新工廠還以購買新設備以及新的生產設備來對於多酚類和其他化合物來自柳橙，檸檬，蔬菜可進行更多的研發. Fytexia將完全空出 法國南部城市Beziers郊區舊樓且到2010年1月之前遷到附近的另一個地點.

業務經理Eric Mota與NutraIngredients.com表示, “我們正在在歐洲建立我們的基地並重點放在亞洲和美國市場.美國已成為我們最大的市場，我們需要彈性和超額產能，以應付越來越多大的訂單。” 他說，該公司還沒有衰退還指出因經濟衰退開始但我們已在功能性食品和飲料領域裡成長了.

Fytexia expands on weight management boom

By Shane Starling, 21-Sep-2009

French herbal supplier, Fytexia, has moved into a new premises at its southern French base as it responds to growing demand for natural ingredients and attempts to gain high-level European GMP certification.

The company, whose best-selling ingredient is the weight loss citrus extract, Sinetrol, said the new plant would allow it to ramp up its production capacity as well as providing the flexibility to allow it to produce a growing number of botanicals.

The company's other ingredients included a mango extract for joint health and a goji extract that is being marketed as a health tonic.

The company said the new facility would assist it in its quest to gain the ISO 22000:2005 standard that was developed in 2005 by the International Standards Organisation (ISO), that recognised Good Manufacturing Processes (GMPs).

The ISO 22000:2005 outlines food safety practices that among other things, “communicate food safety issues to their suppliers, customers and relevant interested parties in the food chain”.

The new facility would also allow for greater research and development activity into polyphenols and other compounds derived from orange, lemon and vegetables, with new equipment purchased as well as new production machinery.

The company will completely vacate its old premises on the outskirts of the southern French city of Beziers to another nearby site by January, 2010.

“We are building on our base in Europe and focusing on Asian and US markets,” operations manager, Eric Mota told NutraIngredients.com. “The US has become our biggest market and we need the flexibility and excess capacity to meet increasingly large orders.”

He said the company had not registered a downturn since the recession began, and noted it had made progress in the functional foods and beverages area.

Article 13.5

The company was in the process of compiling a Sinetrol-based article 13.5 weight management dossier for submission to the European Union nutrition and health regulation.

It proposed two draft wordings, the less technical of which read: “Sinetrol contributes to control body weight and fat mass in healthy overweight adults.”

The submitted ingredient consists of orange, red orange and grapefruit extracts and guarana seeds and suggested dosage is 1.4g of Sinetrol per day.

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