BI Nutraceuticals Offers Facility Tours

LONG BEACH, Calif.BI Nutraceuticals will be conducting tours of its 150,000-square-foot manufacturing facility located in Long Beach on March 11, 2010, the day prior to the start of Expo West in Anaheim. Anyone interested in learning more about the company's technologies in botanical ingredient certification, quality assurance (QA), dry steam sterilization and processing are invited to participate. Both a morning and afternoon tour are scheduled. 

The open house will include a short overview of BI's capabilities, a tour of the company's receiving and production areas, dry steam sterilization process Protexx HP® and QA lab. Complimentary transportation will be provided to and from the Natural Products Expo West lobby and hors'd oeurves will also be served. 

BI Nutraceuticals is a global full-service supplier of dietary supplement and functional food ingredients including whole herb powders and teas, standardized and drug ratio extracts, custom blends, vitamins, minerals, drum to hopper custom blends, granular ingredients and other specialty processes including time released and encapsulated ingredients. The company currently offers more than 200 ingredients that have been determined as safe for use in foods and beverages by the FDA or the Flavors and Extracts Manufacturers Association (FEMA).  Since 2002, BI has been an innovator in steam sterilization and the company's Protexx HP® process is currently the industry's only species-specific, organic sterilization method.