GMP certification for food and supplement manufacturers, from $1,500

What GMP certification covers

Good manufacturing practice, or GMP, is the set of controls that make sure products are consistently produced and controlled to the quality appropriate to their use. It covers the conditions of manufacture rather than the product formula: premises, equipment, people, hygiene, materials, processes, documentation, testing, release and complaints.

Our GMP certification is an independent audit of those controls against the GMP requirements that apply to your products. For food manufacturers that usually means the general principles of food hygiene and good manufacturing practice used internationally. For dietary supplement makers selling into the USA it means the current good manufacturing practice requirements for dietary supplements. We agree the reference with you when we scope the audit, and the certificate states it.

The result is a certificate buyers, distributors and retailers can check on our verification portal, which many of them require before they list a product or approve a contract manufacturer.

• Agreement of the GMP reference that applies to your products
• Document review of procedures, specifications and batch records
• On-site audit of production, storage, hygiene and quality control
• Batch record traceability check from raw materials to release
• Certificate valid for three years, with yearly surveillance audits

Contract manufacturers and private label suppliers use GMP certification often, because their customers, the brand owners, need evidence before placing products on the market under their own names.

Which GMP, and how it relates to other certifications

GMP is not one single document. Food, dietary supplements, cosmetics and medicines each have their own GMP rules. Cosmetics have a dedicated international standard, ISO 22716, which we certify separately. Medicinal products are subject to GMP rules enforced by medicines authorities, and a voluntary certificate cannot replace their inspections or authorizations.

For food businesses, GMP is the foundation that food safety systems build on. If your customers ask for a full food safety management system, consider ISO 22000, or FSSC 22000 or BRCGS where they require a GFSI-recognised scheme. GMP certification is often the right first step for smaller manufacturers, or the specific evidence a distributor asks for.

GMP combines well with ISO 9001, which provides the management system around manufacturing controls. An integrated audit avoids checking document control, internal audit and corrective action twice.

Distributors and online marketplaces increasingly ask for GMP evidence from supplement and food suppliers. A certificate with a clear scope, the GMP reference audited and an online verification link answers that request quickly.

The audit checks the GMP reference you choose, not every possible GMP rule, so choose the one your buyers ask for.

What decides the price

GMP certification with EUROTECH starts at $1,500. Audit time depends on the size and complexity of your manufacturing.

• Product type and risk: dry blends, capsules, tablets, liquids or chilled foods
• Number of production lines and processes
• Employees in production, quality and storage
• In-house laboratory or outsourced testing
• Sites and warehouses, and travel for the on-site audit

We confirm audit days, travel and every fee in a written quote. Complete batch records and current cleaning, calibration and training records keep the audit efficient.

Plants that make both food and supplements, or several dosage forms, usually need more audit time because each process area and its controls are sampled.