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Video: Nordic Naturals Documentary Links Manufacturing Process to Product Quality

Video: Nordic Naturals Documentary Links Manufacturing Process to Product Quality

by John Saccenti | May 21, 2014

Nordic Naturals recently released a 12-minute documentary short film, True North: The Omega-3 Journey From Boat to Bottle, that focuses on the company’s unique vertical integration manufacturing process.

“Our goal is to deliver fish oils to everybody, to eliminate the deficiency of omega-3,” said Nordic Naturals Founder and CEO Joar Opheim. “…you need something that everybody is willing to take. It needs to be pure. You can trust it. It needs to taste good. It can’t be rancid. So, in order to do that, you have to vertically integrate.”

The film, which can be viewed on the company’s website, www.nordicnaturals.com/truenorth, takes viewers from Norway to California to show how Nordic Naturals manages its supply chain in order to achieve leading freshness levels in its products and to offer full traceability from catch to shipping. According to Opheim, freshness may be the single most important quality of fish oil, ensuring product integrity and biological efficacy.

“The reason our products are exceptionally fresh is because of our choice to vertically integrate our manufacturing process,” Opheim says. “We filmed True North not only to show how we manage every step from boat to bottle, but also to educate consumers about why it matters so much.”

Nordic Naturals’ vertical integration begins at sea. The company sustainably sources the best raw material, working with fishermen who carefully handle the catch and deliver it fresh for extraction. Raw oils are purified and processed in a nitrogen-rich, oxygen-free environment at Nordic Pharma, Nordic Naturals’ state-of-the-art, GMP-certified facility, located on the harbor in Tromsø, Norway. One of the most advanced manufacturing plants in the world, the 60,000-square-foot green facility is based on renewable energy. In addition to making its own biofuel, Nordic Pharma provides surplus energy to local businesses.

Finished oils are sent by boat in new, nitrogen-flushed containers to Nordic Naturals’ green bottling and encapsulation facility in San Diego. Finished products are shipped from Nordic Naturals LEED gold-certified headquarters in Watsonville, CA., to millions of customers around the world.
Based in Watsonville, CA., Nordic Naturals is committed to delivering the world’s safest, most effective omega oils to help further its mission of correcting the global omega-3 deficiency.

For more information, visit Nordic Naturals Founder and CEO Joar Opheim discusses the critical importance of vertical integration to product quality. www.nordicnaturals.com.

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