In addition to developing botanical drugs, health products/dietary supplements and functional food, Botanic Century  are well equipped to provide a broad range of costumer-orientated services in the field of the R & D of products of botanical origin.

PRODUCT FORMULA /COMPOSITION DESIGN PLATFORM—An experimentally-based system to optimize the formula/composition of compound botanical products.

Most botanical drugs/products contain ingredients derived from more than one plant species (compound formula). Using compound formula is one of the important characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Modern research results have demonstrated time and again that ingredients in many classic compound formulas of TCM did have synergistic actions towards efficacy and antagonistic actions to reduce toxicity. The ratio of each ingredient in a formula also plays an important role. However, there are no set rules to follow apart from experience passed on from generation to generation.

Scientists from Botanic Century combine traditional knowledge with experimental evidence to establish our own platform for formula/composition design. By conducting chemical and biological experiments, we are able to determine the synergism and/or antagonism between various ingredients and in different ratios. This system allows us to optimize the efficacy/safety profile of a compound formula with 2 or 3 ingredients.

By confining the number of the ingredients in each compound formula to 2 or 3, it becomes feasible and more cost effective to apply GAP and GMP standards to control the quality and batch to batch consistency of intermediate or finished product.

The advantage of Botanic Century's novel platform lies in the integration of eastern wisdom and western sciences, which we believe will lead to the discovery of compound formulas of better efficacy , better safety and more cost effective .

TOTAL R&D SERVICE OF BOTANICAL PRODUCTS

Based on the above mentioned platform, Botanic Century will provide a one-stop service for the  R&D of botanical products, including formula design, GAP application, manufacturing method development and validation, quality control method development and validation, activity assay, pharmacological and toxicology study, manufacturing scaling up, etc.

PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT AND MODIFICATION

In accordance with customer's requests, Botanic Century will provide services to improve the quality of existing botanical products, which cover the following areas:

• Process improvement to increase the content of active chemicals
• Isolation and chemical identification of standard reference chemicals
• Better quality control method development, validation and improved product specifications
• Pilot manufacturing of improved product

ACTIVITY ASSAY

Botanic Century has validated in vitro activity assay methods for screening or pharmacological study.

MEDICINAL PLANT RESOURCE AND EXTRACTS PROVISION

• Providing plant resource information and data
• Customer orientated manufacturing of large collections of extracts for high through put screening
• Plant resource investigation
• Special or rare plant species collection and authentication

BATCH MANUFACTURING OF SPECIALIST PLANT EXTRACTS

Botanic Century's expertise will ensure the high quality of standardized extracts tailor-made to the requirements of companies involved in the manufacturing or marketing of botanical products under their own brand names. From the identification of the production site to the GMP standard extraction facility, QC and product specification, Botanic Century will design and oversee the entire process to guarantee the quality and batch to batch consistency of the specialist extracts.