LINNEAssure™

For the assurance of quality.

From raw herb to finished extract, Linnea takes an uncompromising approach to the manufacture of botanical extracts, and LINNEAssure™ is our guarantee to you. It's our guarantee of the highest purity, efficacy, and safety; LINNEAssure™ is, in short, our promise of excellence.

Picking the best and avoiding the thorns.

Strict raw herb sourcing is vital to insure the efficacy and safety of an herbal extract. Both the pharmacological activity and the safety profile of an extract are species- and genus-specific. Equally, botanical species that appear very similar may have vastly different compositions; a healing herb and a toxic plant can easily be confused by the inexperienced eye or careless hand.

To insure raw herb integrity and complete supply-chain traceability, Linnea never sources raw materials through anonymous trading companies; instead, our raw material procurement specialists rely on their decades of expertise, long-standing relationships with key suppliers, and the raw materials that we grow on our own plantations around the world.

Once raw materials arrive at our plant for extraction, they are subjected to further testing (sight, smell, and taste) for species classification before their final chemical analysis in our Quality Assurance laboratories. GMO, pesticides, and purity control.

LINNEAssure™ extracts are manufactured to meet the highest standards of purity and safety using the latest technologies and our own patented manufacturing processes.

Linnea has a simple policy regarding GMO materials: They are not permitted. Period. And we also test extensively for pesticide residues in our raw materials and finished extracts to insure safety from adulterating and/or potentially harmful substances.

When it comes to safety, Linnea's procedures are second to none.

Cleaning is carried out according to validated operations to ensure product integrity and to avoid any possibility of cross-contamination. Linnea extracts are world renowned for their low levels of residual solvents, low impurity content, and pharmaceutical standard of microbiological control (EU. III). Precision-manufactured botanicals on the broad spectrum.

Because much of the nature and activity of many botanicals remains undefined, Linnea goes further than the basic standardization of extracts. Since Nature has yet to reveal all her secrets, we believe it's important that botanical extracts not only the key ingredients and markers, but also the broad range of ingredients characteristic of the healing herb, the unknowns and synergistic compounds vital to the true nature and activity of the herb. Linnea's broad-spectrum extracts are clearly identifiable from their HPLC "fingerprints."

Conversely, where pharmacological activity can be isolated to a mono-compound, we precision-manufacture phyto-chemicals of world-renowned purity.

Meeting tomorrow's standards...today.

Linnea's adherence to quality assurance systems, combined with strict GMP compliance and our own high standards of operation, provide unmatched batch-to-batch consistency.

And all of Linnea's processes are fully validated by the IKS, the Swiss version of the FDA.

Comprehensive record keeping, full batch traceability, and a worldwide pharmaceutical standard are now important elements of new and proposed regulations for ingredients in health foods. Linnea, always detail and customer oriented, has maintained such standards for decades, and they are standards that cross into all industries in which herb extracts are employed.

Linnea is where the world is heading. Extracts as close to perfect as possible.

All of Linnea extracts are subjected to extensive testing, including microbiological control. They are then released to our Quality Assurance laboratories, which employ such analytical capabilities as HPLC, TLC, photometric and colormetric assay, microbiological control, heavy metal identification, and laser particle-size analysis. Linnea's analytical methods and equipment are, of course, all validated according to international protocols.

When exhaustive testing is complete, only then are Linnea's extracts delivered...along with full analytical documentation, the LINNEAssure™ guarantee of quality. And it doesn't end there.

We pride ourselves in being typically Swiss when it comes to commercial service, documentation, and shipping arrangements. With our dedication to sales, service and support, everything is tailored to the convenience of our customers. Since we also have extensive knowledge of international customs requirements and dispatch procedures, we can guarantee prompt, efficient delivery just about anywhere in the world.

And Linnea's service doesn't end at delivery. Each of our customers receives full post-sale support from Linnea's scientists. LINNEAssure™...

It's our guarantee to you, and it's more. It's everything we are and everything we do. It's our pride and hard work and decades of dedication. Most of all, LINNEAssure™ is your assurance that the products you offer start with the best ingredients the world has to offer.