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Herbalife China
Located on the 48th floor in Raffles City, Herbalife (China)'s headquarter is located in the most prominent business center inShanghai.Surrounded by next remely convenient transportation network, the Herbalife team is able to provide customers with comprehensive services and support. We firmly believe that Herbalife'shealthproducts and personal care products can bring you and your family fitness and health.
Herbalife has always been looking forward to bring its products back to the home of traditional Chinese medicine. As such, as early as 1997, the company initiated its plan of investing in China. In 1998, Herbalife (China) Health Products Ltd. was established and its executive hub in Shanghai.The company's manufacturing base in China was located in Suzhou Industrial Zone and started its operation in 2000.
This is Herbalife's one and only manufacturing base apart from the one in America. Products currently manufactured and sold in China are those in the fields of weight control, nutrition, health and personal care with Protein Drink Mix as the core product, making the product variety reaching 20. All health products have met the American GMP standard and are produced and sold after the registration and approval by the state health authority. Herbalife's output in the first year made it ranked among China's top 50 health products manufacturers.
Herbalife's products was sold in China starting the end of 2001 and the sales volume for the first year alone reached RMB 17 million.
Herbalife's state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities 
Herbalife (China) introduced and assembled the world's most advanced food manufacturing facilities for tablets, powders production and automatic packing lines. Our producing conditions suffice the requirement of China MOH Health Food GMP, and we are among the first factories to obtain Health Food GMP Certificates in Jiangsu province. Besides, the most advanced production methods are also applied, including the pressing directly from powder and coating with transparent film.
Therefore, by enjoying the five factors of "qualified people, superior facilities, law-abiding, quality raw materials and sound environment", Herbalife is able to produce products that meet the USP(United States Pharmacopeia)standards.Herbalife series products quality control
1．Products quality control and raw material sources
A series of strict examining and testing procedures will be followed before all raw materials are applied in the production. These procedures include warehouse confirmation; sampling and examining on appearance and taste; micro-biological examination and testing according to standards of the headquarter of Herbalife America and China's state standards; and the controls of states of the company's computers and of the raw materials' status labels. Thereby, the raw materials used by Herbalife are all strictly controlled.
Herbalife products are finely manufactured based on its formulas and on such strict manufacturing techniques as accurate weighing, mixing, pressing, coating and packing. Online inspectors from the quality department of the company will carry out sampling of the post-mixing powder products and conduct the AQL sampling of the pressed and coated tablets. Then the lab will process the chemical and micro-biological inspections before the products are packed and stocked. The AQL sampling by the quality department and the re-conduct of chemical and micro-biological examinations by the lab are to ensure to the utmost degree that every product our consumers purchase is of superior quality.
2. Chemical and microbiological test of products
The raw materials, semi- finished products and finished products of Herbalife must undergo strict chemical and micro-biological inspections. The company possesses world-class chemical and biological inspection and test equipments, including 3 high-efficient liquid chromatographs from Waters, gas and liquid chromatographs and near infrared spectrophotometer from Perkin Elmer, atomic absorption spectrophotometer from Varian, ultra-violet spectrophotometer from Beck-man, Kjeldahl nitrogen determination system from Gerhardt, dissolution and disintegration testers from Vankel, micro balance and titrator from Mettler Tol-edo, high pressure sterilizer from Steris, aseptic airflow hood from Labconco, incubator and acceleration stability controller from Hotpack, etc. These facilities are equipped to ensure the imported and exported raw materials and finished products are in conformity with the standards of Herbalife America and China's state requirements.
