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Sun Chlorella “A” obtained the anti-doping certification.

What athletes these days need is not only record or achievement. Transparency in conditioning is important for all athletes. Giving a trained body a break and restoring the balance with safe foods are necessary to maintain performance.

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Sun Chlorella’s Anti-Doping Orientation

The necessity of anti-doping

Over its 50-year history, Sun Chlorella has continued to research and develop products that contribute to everyone’s health. Organic and natural foods have been attracting attention in recent years, and this may be even more important for athletes when we think of the issue of doping. Doping problems often occur at major international tournaments. Intentional doping is a behavior that goes against sportsmanship, but there have been some unfortunate cases in which athletes use a supplement without knowing it contains ingredients that are subject to doping. To support all athletes for maintaining their condition and aiming for their best performance without worries, Sun Chlorella has obtained “NSF Certified for Sport” and “Informed-choice”.

The future of anti-doping

Sun Chlorella does not believe the doping issue is only a problem for a few top athletes. We are worried that the doping issue will happen to us, and everyone who loves sports is under the threat of this issue. In these days, we can purchase conditioning products online which athletes use. It is quite easy for us to get products which are not assured their safety, but the risk of doping is increased. Sun Chlorella would like everyone to maintain their health by themselves at ease. We will continue to offer our products and a healthy life so that everyone can enjoy sports and brighten future of sports.

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NSF Certified for Sport

What is NSF Certified for Sport?

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NSF International, which is a private, non-profit and third-party organization, was founded in 1944 in Michigan, USA. It is accredited by “American National Standards Institute (ANSI)” and “the Standards Council of Canada (SCC)”. It provides a wide range of testing for the safety of food sanitation and drinking water, so it is highly trusted.
NSF Certified for Sport® (NSF anti-doping certification) helps athletes make safer decisions when choosing sports supplements and aims to minimize the risk of intake of banned substances.

Awareness and Assurance

The American professional sports leagues such as MLB (baseball) and NHL (ice hockey) and the Canadian professional sports league such as CFL (Canadian football) are permitted to provide supplements only certified by NSF Certified for Sport®.
Moreover, other professional sports organizations such as NFL (American football), NBA (basketball), PGA (golf) and LPGA (women’s golf) in the U.S. recommend the use of supplements certified by NSF Certified for Sport®.

  • It meets the manufacturing control standard conformed to 21CFR.111 which meets the quality requirements in Japan, the U.S. and Europe. (C-GMP)
  • It meets NSF173, which is the quality control standard for dietary supplements and developed in accordance with FDA standard.
  • It uses the banned substances lists including banned substances by WADA (the World Anti-Doping Agency), NFL and MLB.

Process of Analysis and Quality Assurance Control

1 CGMP

NSFGMP facility registration

Evaluation for suppliers and listed ingredient, nich even cover specimen preservation method and standard operating procedures at manufacturing facility.

2 NSF173

Risk preventive measure for label safety and quality control

Implement comprehensive hazard analysis on critical points to evaluate the supplement manufacturing quality assurance.

3 NSF306

All lot analysis testing

270+ ABS (Athletic Banned Substance) testing on manufacturing lot from NSFGMP facility.

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Regular sample testing on NSF accredited laboratory

Annual sampling test is obligation for all certified manufacture to ensure all product label claims are ensured.

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Constant monitoring for certification status

Annual audit implementation on facility registration. If there are any changes on operation, evaluation is done on time.

Informed Sport and Informed Choice

What is Informed Sport and Informed Choice?

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Informed Choice is the anti-doping certification program established by LGC (Laboratory of Government Chemist) in the U. K. since 2007. LGC tests sports supplements in accordance with the anti-doping regulations established by WADA.
The Informed Choice certification process requires the product analysis, the evaluation of all raw materials in manufacturing factories and the audit of manufacturing facilities.
Informed Choice is well known in Europe and Japan, and LGC has concluded partnership agreements with a lot of organizations such as Australian Football League and Rugby Football Union in England, Scotland and Wales. Besides, it receives a high evaluation as an objective index for efforts toward anti-doping and the assurance of the quality of raw materials and products.
After a product is certified, analysis is carried out based on the established regulations, it is continuously tested for quality control. Test results are published on the website, so everyone including athletes and customers is able to browse it.

Awareness and Assurance

Informed Choice is well known in Europe and Japan, and LGC has concluded partnership agreements with a lot of organizations such as Australian Football League and Rugby Football Union in England, Scotland and Wales. Besides, it receives a high evaluation as an objective index for efforts toward anti-doping and the assurance of the quality of raw materials and products.

Process of Analysis and Quality Assurance Control

After a product is certified, analysis is carried out based on the established regulations, it is continuously tested for quality control. Test results are published on the website, so everyone including athletes and customers is able to browse it.

Before certified

Manufacturing

Quality Systems Audit GMP(Good Manufacturing Practice) dedicated to anti-doping

STEP01

Quality review of raw materials and manufacturing process

Based on our experience and achievement for more than 50 years, all control systems including supplements, raw materials, OEM companies and manufacturing such as packaging are audited.

Product analysis

Certification authority which meets the international analytical standard (ISO
17025) and is dedicated to the analysis of banned substances for supplement

STEP02

Obtain the anti-doping certification

5 samples are taken from 3 production batches. Analytical laboratory which meets the international analytical standard (ISO 17025) tests the contamination of WADA (The World Anti-Doping Agency) banned substances.

Obtain the anti-doping certification

After certified
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Informed Sport

All production batches analysis

All production batches are analyzed. Since all batches have been analyzed, all athletes including professional can take product with more safety.

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Informed Choice

Random sampling analysis

Random samples are monthly analyzed by a third party, testing continuously for quality control.