Why use alcohol?
Alcohol is used as an extraction agent because it is able to extract both water and fat-soluble substances, which covers most of the extractable elements within plants. This means that we are confident of achieving a balance that reflects the make up of the original plant.

Why use fresh herbs?
When a herb is fresh it offers its fullest potency and has not yet lost any of its qualities. As herbs dry out they decay and lose potency. This is most vividly understood by comparing fresh parsley with the dried version. No matter how relatively young your dried parsley is, it will never achieve the fresh taste and piquancy of the original herb, bursting with nutrients and taste.

What is GMP?
GMP is Good Manufacturing Practice, based on excellence in Quality Controls and Manufacturing Processes. It means that our factory operates to the highest possible standards, with a team of specially trained staff ensuring that every stage of the production process is carried out according to strict regulations to deliver goods of consistent quality, safety and efficacy.

What is Holistic Standardisation?
Holistic Standardisation is the process by which we ensure that every batch of Bioforce herbs is as potent and effective as it should be. By use of tightly controlled standards in cultivation, from seed to harvest, and by use of detailed Quality Control testing we ensure and confirm in each batch of herbs the presence of a range of key components to help achieve batch-to-batch consistency.

This process differs from Chemical Standardisation, whereby one component of the plant is selected as being responsible for the action of the plant, and only the levels of that one component are measured.

Bioforce believes that often many elements within a plant contribute to the overall effect, creating a synergy that cannot be obtained by a single constituent alone.

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