Consumer Health

Innovative Products. Faster to Market. Reliably Supplied.

We create unique, tailored consumer health solutions to help your brand grow. With more differentiated products and a strong understanding of consumer preferences, we offer multiple innovative delivery options across all categories of the consumer health market. Whatever your challenge, we can help you take your products to market faster with proven reliability and product success.

More Differentiated Products

With easy-to-swallow softgel, LIQUI-GELS® and VEGICAPS® capsules, EASYBURST™ chewable capsules, and ZYDIS® and LYOPAN® fast dissolve tablets, we offer more consumer preferred dosage forms for:

• Analgesics
• Cough, cold & allergy
• Gastrointestinal
• Probiotics
• High-grade fish oils
• Energy
• Lifestyle formulations
• Prenatal & eye-care supplements
• Complimentary medicine
• Beauty from within

Faster Time To Market

With the most consumer-preferred formats and our advanced development formulation expertise, we can help your brands grow with unique, tailored solutions for your OTC, nutritional supplement, or skincare challenges.We can help get your consumer products to market faster and more efficiently by leveraging our:

• Proactively developed products
• Unmatched fill formulation development expertise
• Wide range of shell formulations
• Unlimited possibilities inproduct shapes

More Technologies

Enhanced Solubility System (ESS)

• Facilitates encapsulation of many actives in smaller softgels
• Technology behind LIQUI-GELS® fast acting capsules
• Enables solubility of key actives to help improve bioavailability

Microemulsion & Neutraltaste  Systems

• Lower incidence of reflux
• Provide taste-free fish oils
• Deliver enhanced dissolution of otherwise poorly absorbed minerals

VEGICAPS® capsules

• Expand reach of original softgels to more molecules and the possibility of even smaller capsules
• Patented and 100% animal-free
• Project a more natural/botanical brand image suitable for vegetarians or those with religious or cultural restrictions

Enteric-coated capsules

• Prevent disintegration in the stomach, allowing it to occur instead in the upper part of the small intestine
• Odor-free, soft, and easy to swallow

EASYBURST™ chewable capsules

• Improve compliance among those with difficulty swallowing, such as children and geriatrics
• Portable and convenient, with no need for water and great flavors
• Create product and brand differentiation for OTC and nutritional dietary supplements

ZYDIS® & LYOPAN® fast-dissolve tablets
Our proprietary, market-leading ZYDIS® fast-dissolve technology, offering freeze-dried solid oral dosages, disperses instantly in the mouth—No Water, No Problem.™

LYOPAN® is a proprietary technology for development and manufacture of fast dissolve lyophilized tablets, including over-the-counter (OTC) products such as allergy treatments or travel medications.

STICKPACKS

• Portable, hygienic, and convenient unit-dose solution for a wide range of products
• Ideal for prescription and OTC medications as well as nutritional supplements in liquid, gel, and granule formulations

Packaging Solutions

Our dedicated packaging team allows us to offer creative and innovative packaging proposals including jars, tubes, blisters in folding boxes or wallets, thermoformed packs, clamshells, sampling options, single or multiple over wrapping, customized solutions and an extensive range of proposals for retail products and sampling for
promotions or market tests.

Strong Understanding of Consumer Preferences

We know that today’s health-conscious, educated consumers want products that are effective, fast-acting, and easy to use. We offer the widest range of consumer-preferred dosage forms on the market today and continue to invest in innovative technologies that meet the needs of consumers’ busy lifestyles.

Proven Reliability & Product Success

With over 1,000 products in the market from more than 300 leading companies on five continents, we’ve earned a track record of proven commercial success. 75 years ago, Robert P. Scherer invented the rotary die softgel manufacturing system.We continue RP Scherer’s heritage with ten manufacturing sites in the US, Europe, Latin America, Japan, and Australia.

Our GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) plants minimize your risks and non-quality costs in meeting these demands, with:

• Policies and procedures that ensure quality at all stages of the manufacturing process, including site validation, GMP training, regular product reviews, complaint handling, and corrective/preventative change management
• Monitoring of supplier quality through evaluation of raw materials, packaging, processing aids, and ability to meet defined standards
• Internal auditing and corrective actions captured with CAPA, then tracked and trended through management review                                                                                                                      
• Safety-driven laboratory work committed to high-quality output and adherence to GMP requirements
• In-house expertise in analytical method development and transfer, verification, and validation
• Adherence to ICH guidelines on Zones 1 through 4 stability suites to predict and support shelf-life claims