Many variables affect how safe and effective a product is. Climate, temperature, air and soil quality, harvesting techniques, storage conditions, manufacturing procedures, quality control processes-each contribute to overall product quality. Neglect in any of these areas means inadequate products. So a company's claims about a product is no guarantee that it will actually measure up. The Pharmanex R&D commitment addresses all these issues because our scientists are dedicated to delivering the best botanicals available.

"No matter how excited you are in developing a purified pharmaceutical product from natural sources, if you don't have enough of the raw material, and when it cannot be synthesised, you don't have a product. Once I started working with the Pharmanex approach, the possibilities became limitless."

Dr. Michael Chang

When all the components of quality are in place, products stand up to scrutiny. Such is the case with Pharmanex. Every product delivers the highest quality and the results you expect. That's because Pharmanex is unlike most nutritional supplement companies. A team of over 50 scientists and Ph.D.s (many of whom began their careers with major pharmaceutical companies) apply a Pharmaceutical-like approach to dietary supplements. This impressive R&D engine, vertically integrated with farming and extraction processes, and cutting-edge manufacturing, offers one of the highest-grade, clinically substantiated products available on the market today. In fact, Pharmanex guarantees that each Pharmanex supplement delivers the precise, standardised, recommended usage level of each beneficial natural ingredient. Every package, every capsule, every time.

Pharmanex has not only developed the five proprietary products seen in this brochure, but also created an additional 10 Standardised Botanical Formulas, including Kava Kava, Saw Palmetto, Coenzyme Q10, Cranberry, Echinacea Purpurea, Feverfew, Garlic Odour Control, Panax Ginseng, Hawthorn, and Vitex. Pharmanex has the premier nutritional products available in the marketplace today. This means that every person in Canada who is currently taking an herb (and millions of people are), should be taking Pharmanex.

Pharmanex is dedicated to setting a higher standard of scientific excellence for the dietary supplement industry. Just one way Pharmanex has already met this commitment is by recently establishing the Pharmanex Phytochemical Laboratory within the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. The Pharmanex Phytochemical Laboratory is the first of its kind for scientific research in the dietary supplement industry.

This laboratory will enable Pharmanex to continue providing consumers with the highest level of product information, standardised botanical extraction, and clinically substantiated ingredient claims. Through this advanced science and extensive research, high-quality dietary supplements will be developed to meet the growing needs of consumers. In addition, Pharmanex will continue to meet this commitment through their existing research engine, which consists of over 50 staff scientists with an additional 150-plus scientists at the following world-renowned institutions: UCLA, Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, Tufts, Kansas University, UCSF, Shanghai Medical University, Peking University, Beijing Medical University, and the Institute of Materia Medica. In the past this scientific research and development engine has allowed Pharmanex to develop outstanding products that are proprietary, differentiated, with proven efficacy, and backed by clinical research. In the future, this engine will allow Pharmanex to develop other ground-breaking products of this calibre.