Probiotics are an Important Dietary Supplement
Probiotics are live microorganisms added to dietary supplements and other foods to benefit health. They are generally either bacteria or yeasts, present in dietary supplement products at high levels and chosen to resist passage through the stomach into the gastrointestinal tract. Increasingly, probiotics are present in personal care products such as skin creams.
USP <64> Provides Methods for Testing the Concentration and Purity of Probiotics
USP <64> provides a series of methods for testing the purity of probiotic organisms as well as determining their number in a dietary supplement product. Microchem Laboratory can use these procedures as well as proprietary methods to determine the number of bacteria or yeast present in your product.
Microchem can also identify probiotics in dietary supplements using DNA sequencing technology and other methods.
