Schiff, based in Salt Lake City, USA, develops, manufactures, markets and sells branded and private label vitamins and nutritional supplements in the United States and throughout the world
Starlims Technologies's web-based Lims will be implemented by Schiff Nutrition International.
"We selected Starlims partly because of its extensive expertise in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and food and beverage industries; and partly due to the technologically advanced web-based software it offers," said Abel Sekepyan, Lims administrator at Schiff.
"We plan to make use of existing Starlims tools, configuring them to match our own business and laboratory practices.
"We look forward to further automating the flow of data at Schiff, making our environment as paperless as possible".
"We are delighted to work with Schiff in this wide-ranging project, which will improve automation and help ensure regulatory compliance throughout the Schiff laboratory infrastructure," said Jeff Ferguson, chief operating officer at Starlims.
According to Ferguson, Starlims v10 will interface with a wide range of instruments, helping manage sample login, chain of custody, test scheduling, results entry, training records, laboratory consumables inventories, stability studies and other processes.
"There is a marked trend towards more and more stringent regulation in the nutraceutical manufacturing, as in other industries," added Ferguson.
He cited the US Food and Drug Administration's new regulations for manufacturers of vitamins, herbal pills and other dietary supplements, which will go into effect 24 August 2007.
"While Schiff already has stringent quality control of raw materials and all ingredients, other companies in this industry may need to enforce tighter quality control standards as a result of new regulations," he added.
"Starlims is ideal for such requirements.
"It is easily deployed in distributed organisations, vastly facilitating testing, traceability and quality control of raw materials that are sourced on a global basis".
