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ABOUT FLAVORACTIV FLAVOUR STANDARDS
FlavorActiV is the global leader in GMP pharmaceutical flavour standards, delivering trusted sensory solutions to the food and beverage industry for over 25 years. With a portfolio of more than 80 certified flavour standards, we help train, calibrate, and validate professional sensory panels to ensure consistent, high-quality tasting experiences across various sectors.
WHAT ARE FLAVOUR STANDARDS?
Flavour standards are sensory reference compounds used to replicate specific taste and aroma attributes—both positive and negative—in food and beverage products. They are essential tools for training sensory panellists, improving product quality, detecting off-flavours, and achieving consistency in production.
Our GMP Flavour Standards are sold by flavour. Each flavour standard is encapsulated in pharmaceutical-grade, blister-sealed capsules, ensuring stability and a long shelf life. These standards are safe to smell and taste and require no specialised equipment.
Shop from a range of GMP pharma flavour standards. We ship globally.
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Why we use blister packaging (and never pots
Blister packaging protects capsules from the environment until they are ready for use. It greatly reduces the amount of headspace for possible flavour escape. As each capsule is individually blister-packaged, making use of one capsule still leaves all others protected.
Pots are semi-porous, allowing molecules to pass through and flavour to be lost. Their significant headspace also contributes to substantial flavour escape as a gas. Even when using just one capsule, all those remaining in the pot are exposed.
Our GMP blister packaging is also 100% recyclable!
Only Pharmaceutical Quality GMP Flavour Standards provide sufficient quality for professional sensory panels to train and validate with.
MHRA Audited
Our UK-based GMP Pharma Flavour Centre is UK MHRA- and US FDA-inspected.
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Only FlavorActiV GMP flavour standard capsules bear our mark of authenticity.
We brand each of our capsules so that our customers know they’re getting the Pharmaceutical GMP Quality that only FlavorActiV provide.
9/10 of the world’s largest beverage brands rely on FlavorActiV globally for their sensory needs.
Our UK GMP Flavour Centre
FlavorActiV’s GMP Flavour Centre is the world’s only pharmaceutically run facility dedicated to producing flavour reference standards. The Flavour Centre is a state-of-the-art facility located near Liverpool, UK.
The Flavour Centre was designed by FlavorActiV from the ground up at the direct request of global customers, who wanted to move away from inferior food-grade ‘certified flavour standards’ to GMP-compliant pharmaceutical standards. This standard ensures the production of safe, stable, traceable, consistent, and long-shelf-life products.
All FlavorActiV’s industry-leading encapsulated Flavour Standards are manufactured following GMP at our Flavour Centre. All aspects of manufacture are overseen by Quay Pharma, audited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). We also welcome customer audits.
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