Dietary Supplements

Dietary supplements are products with nutritional or physiological effects that help to increase the supply of certain nutrients/active substances (e.g., vitamins, minerals, amino acids, trace elements, secondary plant matter, etc.) in the body's metabolism. With the rapid development of social economy and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, people's demand for health is increasing. And dietary supplements have become the main consumption choice for the public to pursue health and their sales have grown sharply in recent years. The rapidly growing dietary supplement market makes deformulation service urgently needed. Because people need comprehensive analysis of supplement ingredients to modify or create their dietary supplement formulations, or to prove their products are compliant, or for other purposes. Based on our ability to analyze plants, herbs, phytochemicals, sports nutrition, and human supplements, Alfa Chemistry is confident that we can provide you with high quality dietary supplement deformulation service.

Meet Our Services

Alfa Chemistry is a leading global expert in the extraction, analysis and characterization of vitamins, minerals, nutrients and botanicals in products. Our technical experts have extensive experience in dietary supplement deformulation, and can test any ingredient in different types of dietary supplements to determine their identity and quantity.

Dietary supplements we test include, but are not limited to:

These dietary supplements, in either form, including capsules, caplets, gelcaps, gummies, soft chews, liquids, powders, softgels, tablets, energy bars, tea, can be deformulated by Alfa Chemistry.

Ingredients contained in dietary supplements we analyze include, but are not limited to:

• Vitamins: Vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, b-vitamins, vitamin C, biotin, folic acid, niacin, pantothenic acid, etc.
• Minerals: Calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, iodine, fluorine, zinc, selenium, manganese, copper, etc.
• Amino acids: Acetyl-L-carnitine, BCAAS (leucine, isoleucine, valine), beta alanine, betaine, carnitine, creatine, L-arginine, L-aspartic acid, L-citrulline, L-glutamine, L-glycine, L-isoleucine, L-leucine, L-methionine, L-phenylalanine, L-proline, taurine, L-threonine, L-tyrosine, L-valine, N-acetyl L-tyrosine, N-acetyl L-carnitine, N-acetyl L-cysteiner, etc.
• Others: Coenzyme Q10, Omega-3 fatty acids, chon­droitin sulfate, 5-HTP, adaptogenic mushrooms, caffeine, food dyes, Ginseng, Gingko biloba, melatonin, preservatives, sugars, sweeteners, L-theanine, theobromine, protein, glucosamine and chondroitin, preservatives, etc.

By analysis of your dietary supplements ingredients and their content, we can help you with (including but not limited to):

• Determining the contents and sources of flavors, scents, ingredients, and preservatives used in the supplements.
• Studying the competition's products.
• Identifying how a product has become "new and improved."
• Establishing how to make your own products or improve on an existing product.
• Demonstrating the compliance of your supplements
• Ensuring both the health safety of your products and the correctness of the ingredients the product claims to contain.
• Checking whether the ingredients listed on the product label are consistent with the actual product ingredients.
• ...

Our deformulation services are more than just identifying and quantifying ingredients, please contact us today to learn more about our services.

Techniques and Instruments

Alfa Chemistry uses various techniques and instruments for dietary supplements deformulation, including but not limited to:

How We Proceed?

Please kindly note that our products and services are for research use only.