Sourcing & verification

Verified ingredient sourcing for U.S. supplement brands

Pre-verified supplier packages that pair on-the-ground factory audits in mainland China with independent Western-lab Certificates of Analysis and FSVP-ready documentation.

U.S.-registered  ·  establishing operations from Hong Kong


VERIFICATION PACKAGE

What’s included
Delivered as one package, per supplier
Factory auditOn-site
Lab testingIndependent
Lab accreditationISO/IEC 17025
DocumentationFSVP-ready
InspectionPre-shipment

Illustrative package structure

The gap

Two poor options for sourcing ingredients from China

Mid-market brands are caught between under-vetted marketplace sourcing and the cost of building a China quality function in-house. Both carry risk you can’t put on a label.

Buying direct off a marketplace

No chain of custody, no independent testing, and no way to confirm the material shipped matches the material quoted. A single out-of-spec lot can mean a recall.

Building China QA in-house

Auditors, travel, lab relationships, and language capability — a full function most $1M–$50M brands can’t justify for a handful of ingredients.

The Novaline package

A pre-verified supplier package: the audit, the independent COA, and the documentation bundle — delivered as one, without the overhead.

How it works

Four checkpoints between the factory floor and your dock

Each package moves through the same sequence. Nothing releases until every checkpoint clears.

01

Factory audit, on the ground

An on-site audit of the mainland manufacturer — facility, process controls, and documentation reviewed in person.

02

Independent lab testing

A chain-of-custody sample is submitted to an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited laboratory in Hong Kong for independent analysis.

03

COA + documentation bundle

A third-party Certificate of Analysis and FSVP-ready regulatory documentation bundle, assembled and delivered to you.

04

Pre-shipment inspection

A third-party pre-shipment inspection verifies the released lot against spec before it leaves for your dock.

Ingredient focus

Starting with one ingredient, verified end to end

We prove the methodology on a flagship ingredient before we expand. The roadmap grows one verified supplier package at a time.

Flagship ingredient

L-Tyrosine

USP grade, produced via the fermentation route — the profile most U.S. brands specify for nootropic and stress-support formulas.

GradeUSP
Production routeFermentation
CAS number60-18-4


Independent testing at an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited laboratory

On-site audit of the producing facility

FSVP-ready documentation bundle

Third-party pre-shipment inspection

L-Theanine
Verification package in development

COMING SOON

Glutathione
Verification package in development

COMING SOON

Why Hong Kong

Mainland access, Western-facing credibility

Hong Kong is the structural advantage. It sits close enough to reach mainland factories directly, and far enough — in law, language, and finance — to give U.S. brands the credibility they need to buy with confidence.

Mainland factory access

Direct reach to producing facilities for on-site audits and chain-of-custody sampling.

Western regulatory & banking

A transparent legal and financial environment your compliance and finance teams already recognize.

Verification standards

Independent standards, at every step

We build packages around third-party standards — not our own assurances. The verification is only as good as who signs it.

ISO/IEC 17025 laboratories

Analysis performed by accredited independent laboratories.

SGS / Intertek inspection

Pre-shipment inspection by established third-party inspectors.

FSVP-ready documentation

Records assembled to support your Foreign Supplier Verification Program.

Independent chain of custody

Samples tracked from factory to lab to keep results verifiable.

Standards and inspection bodies are referenced as the frameworks Novaline builds packages around. Specific laboratories and inspectors are engaged per project.

About Novaline

Novaline exists to make one thing verifiable: that the ingredient you approve is the ingredient that ships. The methodology — independent audit, independent testing, independent inspection — is the product. Everything we build is designed so a skeptical QA manager can trace every claim back to a document.

Novaline LLC
Founder & Managing Director

Get in touch

Request a supplier verification package

Tell us the ingredient and grade you’re sourcing. We’ll walk you through what a verified package would include and what it takes to stand one up.

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