Episode 10: B&D
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Hi, I'm Shane from Path Forward Formulator. Welcome to the mobile edition of 3 Minute Thursdays, where we demonstrate the features of our app while building a formula on a mobile device in 3 minutes or less. Please click the demo button at any time in the post above to schedule your demo and learn more about Path Forward Formulator. In this week's 3 Minute Thursday, we're working from our mobile device — from the rooftop of our building here in Chicago. Today we're going to formulate a five billion CFU probiotic with a couple of strains from B&D Nutritional Ingredients, in 3 minutes or less. Let's go ahead and start by selecting the dosage form. We'll choose a tablet — a single-layer tablet. We'll go with one tablet per serving, 30 per container, with a clear coating, single-color tablets. We're going to use organic clean label excipients from Ribus and their special blend. Next, we choose ingredients. Let's look for Bacillus coagulans SNZ. We know to get 2.5 billion CFU, we're gonna need 25 milligrams.
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Put that in the tablet. The L. rhamnosus strain that B&D has — which is 50 billion CFUs per gram — we'll put 25 milligrams in, add that to the formula. You can tap the bottom of your screen and you'll see the preliminary cost estimates as well as the packaging estimator. There are three little dots there where you can add ingredients to a proprietary blend, or even view how your Supplement Facts is shaping up.
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If we go ahead and save this product, we've now got the formula in our Active Formula list. We can click on that, see the ingredients, the cost, the packaging, and just like in our web-based app, we can export everything — the fact sheet as a PDF, or as an Excel file.
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After we've exported the specification sheet, take a look at that. You can see your full formula with the label claim, potencies, and total input amount. You can also see the amounts of the excipients that the system has generated. If we scroll down to the supplier section, you’ll see the contact for B&D Nutritional Ingredients for the two probiotic strains. And you’ll also see the contact for Ribus to get the organic clean label excipients.
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The last thing the spec does is drop a copy of the Supplement Facts down below. And that is how you make a single-layer probiotic tablet with organic clean label excipients in 3 minutes or less — on your mobile device. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you next time on 3 Minute Thursdays.
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Again, if you haven’t had a demo of our system yet, feel free to go to pathforwardformulator.com, click Schedule a Demo, and find the perfect day and time that works for you. Thank you.