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The Real Stevia Company, Granular AB, Announces Second Round of Proficiency Testing Program
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Stockholm, June 12, 2012
The Real Stevia Company, Granular AB, Announces Second Round of Proficiency Testing Program
The Real Stevia Company announces a second year of participation in the International Stevia Council’s (ISC) Proficiency Testing Program (PTP).
After a particularly successful first year of the PTP, The Real Stevia Company continues the close partnership together with the other members of the ISC in order to raise analytical standards within the young and rapidly growing stevia industry.
In the words of ISC’s President Carl Horn af Rantzien: “The PTP ensures that consistent analytical methods and reference standards are used throughout the industry in measuring steviol glycoside content and is designed to help companies determine the quality of their stevia products.”
Stevia as a sweetener in food and beverage is new to many companies around the world and cooperation is needed in order to create necessary common quality standards. Therefore the Proficiency Testing Program was established in order to create universal and more exact standards of measuring of steviol glycoside content.
“The PTP has proven to be just as successful as we had hoped for, why a continuation of the program is natural. It is important for all serious and professional actors within the stevia industry sector to establish common standards in order to create products with better and more exact quality” says Torbjörn Sandberg MD of The Real Stevia Company.
For more information about the ISC’s Proficiency Testing Program please visit:
http://www.internationalsteviacouncil.org/proficiency-testing
For more information, please contact:
Thomas Backelin, Supply Chain Director
thomas.backelin@realstevia.com
+46 70 717 47 45
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- sustainable stevia
Granular AB, The Real Stevia Company, är ett svenskt företag grundat 2003, som producerar och säljer steviaextrakt till den globala livsmedelsindustrin. The Real Stevia Company samarbetar med små jordbrukare i Paraguay och andra länder där steviaplantan odlas och har på så sätt kontroll över hela leveranskedjan. Företaget strävar efter att tillhandahålla en både socialt och miljömässigt hållbar produkt som kan bidra till att höja odlarnas levnadsstandard och samtidigt uppfylla kvalitets- och säkerhetskraven från den Europeiska livsmedelsindustrin. Vi hjälper våra kunder att ta fram attraktiva, välsmakande och hälsosammare stevia-sötade konsumentprodukter.
