Quality Assurance
We manufacture a variety of products, ranging from food additives to pharmaceutical ingredients.
Our hope is to gain trust from our customers and provide good health to the community, through maintaining our quality and safety to high standards.
Furthermore, we are keen on practicing Good Manufacturing Practice.
We have obtained several certificates proving GMP in our factories, and we strive to do even better each day.
Licenses and Certificates
Pharmaceutical manufacturer license / Animal pharmaceutical manufacturer license
Starting with rutin, our company has continuously been manufacturing pharmaceutical ingredients since 1949. Despite the laws and regulations swiftly changing over the years, our license is up to date through our own careful maintenance of GMP, and through inspections by the government agency. We also manufacture pharmaceutical ingredients for companies abroad, passing each country’s strict regulations. In addition, we have a license for manufacturing animal pharmaceutical ingredients.
Pharmaceutical manufacturer license
Animal pharmaceutical manufacturer license
Food Business Permits
The following permits have been granted to us.
・Permit for Manufacturing Food Additives
・Permit for Manufacturing Soft Drinks
・Permit for Manufacturing Sauces
JIHFS “Certificate of GMP for Health Foods”
Our company has received the certificate of GMP for Health Foods by *JIHFS in 2010. Since then we’ve been following its guidelines and expanding the manufacturing of health food ingredients, including *FFC suitable products.
*JIHFS = Japanese Institute for Health Food Standards
*FFC＝ Food with Function Claims
Certificate of GMP for Health Foods
HACCP Certificate of Codex Alimentarius
To maintain our good sanitary standards and to strictly follow the new HACCP sanitary guidelines effective since June 2020, we’ve obtained the HACCP Certificate based on the Codex Alimentarius in 2018.
HALAL Certificate, Kosher Certificate
We are working towards inclusiveness of different cultures and religions. Some of our ingredients have been HALAL certified and/or Kosher certified.
HALAL Certificate
（No.125-TSRI/19）
Kosher Certificate
HALAL: “Halal” means “legal” or “permitted” in the context of Islamic law, and it signifies food consumable under the regulation of Islam.
Kosher: The word “Kosher” derives from “Kashrut,” the food regulation under Judaism.
Others
Feed manufacturer, Feed importer
Audits on Outsource Companies and Supplier Companies
Inspection authorities / User Audit
We are welcoming about 60 audits and inspections in a year at this company,
including ones from outside of Japan, such as the U.S. FDA.
And through receiving valuable comments and feedbacks from them,
we continue to learn and improve our quality.
Self-audit and Training
As a part of self-inspection regime, we have regular factory patrols by our quality assurance department.
On top of that, we hold onsite trainings and attend seminars outside of the company in efforts to expand our knowledge and improve our technology.
Audits on Outsource Companies and Supplier Companies
In order to meet a variety of requests, we work with outsourcing companies in and out of Japan for some of the product manufacturing.
These companies not only go through regular inspections under our company standards, but their product quality is also assessed extensively at our factory’s quality control department.