Indena has received Kosher certification from KLBD for a line of products including its Meriva and Greenselect Phytosome ingredients.
12 Nov 2012 --- Indena has been working extensively with KLBD in London for many years and has certified a large number of its ingredients. The Kosher certification for these ingredients, manufactured in the main Indena production plant in Settala (Milan), required extensive site inspections reviewing the entire process from harvesting to the final extract. This certification confirms that Indena extracts are acknowledged worldwide as ingredients meeting high standards.
Christian Artaria, Marketing Director and Head of Functional Food Development, commented: “The positive conclusion of this new certification procedure conducted by the International Kosher agency KLBD is a further step completing the Indena certification plan, which involved all our production sites. It confirms Indena's commitment in respecting the different cultures and specific needs of all customers and their consumers worldwide.”
Russell Brown, KLBD Commercial Consultant, commented: “It is very gratifying to increase our kosher certification business with Indena, certifying more of their leading ingredients. Furthermore, on behalf of my colleagues, I have to say it is a pleasure to work with such a professional organisation and to thank them for the courtesy they extended to our personnel.”
KLBD Kosher Certification (also known as the Kashrut Division of the London Beth Din) is one of the world leading kosher certification agencies operating in 60 countries across 6 continents and certifying many of the multinational food processors and raw material manufacturers alike. KLBD is committed to offering a professional and affordable global kosher certification with rabbis, food technologists and food chemists working round the clock for your needs alongside our representatives and agents around the world.
Indena is the leading company dedicated to the identification, development and production of active principles derived from plants, for use in the pharmaceutical, health food and personal care industries. Backed up by 90 years of botanical experience, the key to Indena’s success is its intense research activity. The company has more than 150 primary patents and has published more than 700 scientific studies.
Indena employs more than 800 staff, including 10% dedicated to full-time research activities carried out at Settala Research Center, near Milan. Indena also co-operates with the world's most prestigious universities and private research institutions. Headquartered in Milan, Indena has 5 production sites and 4 international branches throughout the world and manages sales in more than 70 countries. The Company's experts communicate and interact constantly with the major international regulatory authorities such as WHO, EMA, and ESCOP, and cooperate on the update of all the main pharmacopoeias.
flavors and aromas; nutraceutical and functional food ingredients
Indena is the leading company dedicated to the identification, development and production of high quality active principles for the pharmaceutical and health food industries. In particular, Indena offers for the nutritional field botanical extracts from edible plants, with a full phytochemical characterization, safe and supported by advanced human studies. Backed up by almost a century of botanical experience, the Italian privately owned company invests a significant amount of its annual turnover in research, making this activity the key to its success.
Phyto-chemical research is carried out in Indena's own Research Center in Settala, Italy. Indena also co-operates with the world's most prestige universities and private research institutes in the biological assessment of the safety and effectiveness of its products up to clinical phase I/II.
A key strategic research objective is the development of new active principles for pharmaceutical applications. This also forms an indispensable base for the health-food and personal care industries.
The pharmaceutical side of the company is focused mainly on anti-cancer drugs, which are produced to US-FDA, ICH and EU standards at Indena's High Containment Manufacturing facilities in Settala, Italy. Indena's drug discovery strategy is to develop new chemical entities up to "Phase I/II" of clinical studies, and then license them to pharmaceutical companies.
Today Indena is also concentrating its efforts on the industrial production of high-quality standardised botanical derivatives, which are important ingredients in health food products. In fact, the company produces standardised extracts from edible plants that are traditionally recognised as having therapeutic properties, as well as from plants that have proven pharmacological value. Indena's research and production activities are particularly attentive to plant-based principles that have anti-oxidant properties and prevent damage caused by free radicals.
Backed by more than 90 years of botanical experience, Indena has developed a plantation network, managed by experts, to supply its research and production centres with officinal plants, while ensuring bio-diversity and protecting the ecosystem from uncontrolled harvesting. Today more than 60% of the raw material used in manufacturing comes from cultivations.
Indena's decades-long global presence in the plant extraction industry is a guarantee of its in-depth knowledge and understanding of the business, market trends and legal considerations. There is constant communication and interaction between the company's experts, who cooperate on the updating of all the main pharmacopoeias, and the major international regulatory authorities such as WHO, EMA, and ESCOP. The company has more than 150 primary patents and has published more than 700 scientific studies.
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