RistarLab: Mercè Camps visits the facilities of a food supplement manufacturer‘

On 23 October 2020, Mercè Camps, the director of our office, was invited to visit the state-of-the-art facilities of RistarLab in Ripollet (Barcelona), a company specialising in the manufacture and design of food supplements. 

RistarLab It is a company that manufactures food supplements for third parties and advises external companies on the formulation of food supplements. The facilities at RistarLab They are located in Ripollet (Barcelona) and were built in 2019, meaning they are equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for the manufacture of food supplements, in both solid and liquid forms. 

The design and construction of the plant RistarLab has scrupulously followed the GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) regulations. In other words, its facilities comply in every respect with the regulations applicable to the pharmaceutical and veterinary sectors regarding good manufacturing practices. 

For this reason, the director of GTF, Mercè Camps, was delighted to accept the invitation from the plant manager, Xavier Batllori, to visit the facilities.

And this is what was found… 

The RistarLab plant: facilities for the manufacture and formulation of food supplements 

The company’s premises are located in Ripollet, just 25 km from Barcelona.

The RistarLab plant is equipped with the the following benefits state-of-the-art:

• 1 R&D Laboratory y Quality Control
• Miscellaneous warehouses:
  • De raw materials (temperature and humidity control)
  • Excluded from primary and secondary packaging materials
  • From finished product y dispatch area 
  • For pProducts requiring special storage conditions (cold store, flammable goods, special operations)
• 2 production areas:
  • Solids Manufacturing Area: This section features 210 m² of classified rooms. It is equipped with HVAC air treatment and ultrafiltration, enabling various stages of the process of producing a food supplement to be carried out (f(manufacturing, packaging and boxing through to the finished product).
  • Liquids and Semi-solids Manufacturing Area: The area comprises 140 m² of classified rooms. It is also equipped with HVAC systems and air ultrafiltration. Parts of the process involved in producing a food supplement (manufacturing, filling and cartoning through to the finished product) are carried out here.

Furthermore, the entire complex of facilities has its own purified water production system.

RistarLab: a dietary supplement manufacturer rising to the challenges of the 21st century

The Director of the Pharmaceutical Technical Office, M. Camps, Mercè Camps, following the visit, he wished to «to praise the excellent condition and standard of the new RistarLab facilities". Camps also emphasised the importance for the industrial sector specialising in food and pharmaceuticals of «having facilities capable of meeting the challenges posed by the 21st century»

And the thing is, These days, it’s no longer enough just to do things properly. Nowadays, manufacturers and formulators of food supplements must do more than simply meet the needs of customers in the sector. To win over potential international customers, they must be able to demonstrate that they comply with quality standards. 

At Gabinete Técnico Farmacéutico M. Camps, we know that, in order to obtain international certifications, companies must meet the following requirements: 

• A strict compliance with regulations international standards applicable to the food sector
• To have the will, on an internal level, to implement measures aimed at developing quality systems and good manufacturing practices
• To have a technical team with expertise in regulatory affairs with experience and/or to make use of external regulatory consultancy services for those technical and legal matters in which we do not have expertise .

Effective guidance will ensure that the design of our facilities and equipment complies with international requirements and is tailored to the needs of the new market. 

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