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Capabilities – Pittsburgh Tablets, Capsules and Powders

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Alcrea Health is the contract manufacturing division of Atrium Innovations – a developer, manufacturer and marketer of value added products for the cosmetic, pharmaceutical, chemical and nutritional industries. Pittsburgh is Alcrea's headquarters and where we manufacture more traditional nutritional supplement products. This is also where the majority of our science/technical team resides who are available to assist in formulation review of the products you want Alcrea to contract manufacture for you. More at www.alcrea-health.com

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Capabilities – PittsburghTablets, Capsules and Powders

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About Alcrea Health

Experience and Facilities

• Over 50 years experience as one

of the world’s leading manufacturers

of nutritional supplements

• Headquartered in Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania

• More than 365,000 square feet of

state-of-the-art manufacturing and

packaging facilities

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About Alcrea Health

Production Expertise

• High-quality manufacturing partner

• Provides a full range of innovative

and ready-to-market, customized

products and packaging solutions

• Skills and services for product

development, formulation,

compliance, packaging and

label design

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Commitment to Quality

Credentials – Our team is comprised of members who have earned

their PhDs in nutrition and pharmaceuticals.

Research – Experienced staff conducts science-based

research and development outfitted with the latest

analytical equipment.

Certification/Accreditation – Our world-class manufacturing facilities

comply with both federal and worldwide regulatory bodies.

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Commitment to Quality

Analytical Testing – Our testing laboratories are run by

seasoned industry professionals with impeccable credentials.

In-process Monitoring – Technical supervision teams provide

monitoring that includes continual on-site training for all

manufacturing employees.

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Unsurpassed Quality

Alcrea’s commitment to quality begins

with our highly trained and dedicated

team of professionals who work

continually to produce exceptional,

science-based products at the cutting

edge of technology.

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Formulation and New Product Development

Andrew Halpner, PhD

• Vice President of Product Development and Technical Services

• Received his PhD in Nutrition from the Friedman School of Nutrition

Science and Policy at Tufts University

Barry W. Ritz, PhD

• Vice President of Scientific Affairs at Atrium Innovations, Inc.

• Active researcher in the emerging field of nutritional immunology

• Serves as a corporate and brand liaison regarding product development,

research and regulations

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Manufacturing Quality

Naeem Shaikh, PhD

• Vice President of Research and Development

• Leads the Manufacturing and Quality Departments

• Over two decades with Alcrea Health

• Earned his PhD in Pharmaceutics from Duquesne University

• Additional degrees in Pharmacy from Duquesne and the University

of Karachi in Pakistan

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Certifications & Accreditations

Alcrea Health is continually reinvesting substantial

resources to improve and upgrade our manufacturing equipment,

laboratories, processes and staff education/training.

Our dedicated staff of manufacturing and nutritional experts are

committed to unprecedented quality through every step of our

manufacturing and quality control procedures.

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Certifications & Accreditations

Current Acknowledgements

• NSF International GMP

Registration

• NSF Certified for Sport®

• Organic Certified

• ISO 9001 Certified

• ISO 17025 Accreditation for

in-house laboratories

• Danish Medicine Agency

Certification of GMP Compliance

• Written Standard Operating

Procedures (SOP) to comply

with current Good

Manufacturing Practices

(cGMP)

• Vendor Certification Program

(VCP) to ensure raw material

quality

• Health Canada

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In-House Laboratories

Our in-house laboratories, under the supervision of our

staff PhDs, constantly monitor quality. From receipt of

raw materials in our facility, through testing dosage

potency and tablet/capsule disintegration, our in-house

labs ensure product quality and consistency.

• Chemical Analysis Laboratory – ensures potency of formula

using ICP, HPLC, FT-NIR, ICP MS, GCMS and UPLC

• Physical Analysis Laboratory – ensures dosage weight,

hardness, disintegration and overall consistency and appearance

• Microbial Analysis Laboratory – tests all raw materials and

finished products for yeast, mold and bacterial purity in

accordance with AOAC

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Manufacturing

Our equipment and technology yield high

quantities of high quality products.

Monthly Capacity• High speed encapsulation 400,000,000 capsules

• Semi-automatic encapsulation 80,000,000 capsules

• Tablet compression 450,000,000 tablets

• Mixing – 700,000 kgs

• Bottling – 3,000,000 (scalable to 4,500,000 bottles)

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Manufacturing

Galenic Forms (Dosage & Delivery)• Hard capsules: plant, animal or fish gelatin

• Tablets: various sizes and shapes

• Chewable tablets

• Lozenges

• Powders

• Softgels

• Enteric-coated tablets and capsules

• Pharmaceutical glaze or aqueous coating

• Time-released capsules

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Packaging

• Tamper-proof induction shrink sealing

• Full body sleeve

• Convenience packs

• Bottles

• Blister packs

• Stick packs

• Pouches

• Cartons

• Sensor tags

• Custom label design/review

• And more

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For additional questions or to discuss a project, please contact:

Jessi Mingo, Manager, Business Development and Marketing

[email protected] • 412-722-0314