World-class standards in a bottle
MANILA, Philippines — Did you know that over 3,000 bottles of Solmux Advance with Zinc Suspension are manufactured every hour?
Selected media and online personalities guests were recently able to discover how the cough formulation is made with an exclusive tour of the over 3,000sqm Amherst Laboratories Inc. (Amherst), the largest manufacturing facility of pharmaceutical products in the Philippines.
Amherst, a subsidiary of the Unilab Group, is the only manufacturing plant in the country that has been certified by EU GMP and Singapore & Malaysia Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation Scheme (PIC/s). Solmux Advance with Zinc is a product of Unilab, Inc. (Unilab), the country’s leading pharmaceutical and health care company.
Solmux Advance with Zinc is a product of Unilab Inc. (Unilab), the country’s leading pharmaceutical and healthcare company.
During the tour, guests were able to observe how stringent safety and quality assurance protocols are in place to ensure that each Solmux Advance with Zinc bottle provides safe and high quality cough relief while boosting its ability to provide faster cough recovery. .
To ensure the safety and efficacy of Solmux Advance with Zinc, Unilab senior manager for research and development Titus Cheng says that product development and manufacturing at Amherst follows rigorous quality-controlled processes.
“Starting at R&D, we confer with our Medical Affairs and develop products that have medical significance. Then, when we formulate, we need to do strict testing on chemical, physical and microbiological properties, using ingredients that we know are safe. We also check the stability at different temperatures, dissolution or how a product dissolves and its absorption, safety from microbes, and whether it produces impurities during storage. These are all done to check whether a product will remain stable and effective during its recommended shelf life,” Cheng says.
The manufacturing process of Solmux Advance follows strict quality controls from start to finish. Raw materials are properly weighed and combined using state-of-the-art machinery before being manufactured, bottled, labeled, packed and then sent to the high-tech First
