About BioVerve
BioVerve is the trading name of Festec UK Limited and is an independent British business head quartered in Surry, England with a distribution centre located in Burnham, Buckinghamshire.
We were founded in 2007 with the goal of building a global supply-chain to improve the distribution of plant powders and botanicals extracts from India and Malaysia. We've since expanded our partnerships into Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and China.
Our team and global partners bring together decades of experience, with the goal of helping customers get high quality, fresh supplements at a cost-effective price.
We offer pure, single-ingredient supplements backed by Certificates of Analysis and third-party testing. All our supplements are custom manufactured, which means we are involved from harvest, to capsule filling, and packaging.
What do we do differently?
The biggest problems with the supplements market is the high mark-ups and poor quality of many of the products. The three things we do differently:
1) Direct partnerships with manufacturers
We partner directly with the best factories, wholesalers, and farmer collective in Asia & Africa – the very same ones that produce the highest quality products for the native market. We visit them and have regular zoom call which has lead to the building of strong personal relationships with the owners.
This hands-on approach is the most effective way to ensure our ingredients are manufactured to a high specifications at market competitive prices.
2) Focus on a small range of quality products
We only develop products where we can add value (quality and price).By only ever developing a handful of new products and delisting the least popular products each quarter—we can make sure that our product range is of the highest quality.
3) Online only customer sales.
Working from the ground up, we built an online-only, direct to customer model, which allows us to offer our high quality supplements without the additional overheads added into the price that are associated with a bricks and mortar retail store.
Strive for Efficiency
Our UK team and global partners are predominately made up of engineers where this benefits us over our competitors is that we excel at identifying patterns and constraints that are causing inefficiencies and improving upon them for a positive outcome for everyone involved in the supply chain to the customer.
-We don't do long fluffy mission statements. One simple sentence sums us up- "Develop better supplements and make customers feel excited about buying our products."
Our Ingredients
We sell high quality standarised extracts and powders that fall into two categories: Botanical Ingredients and Isolated nutrients.
- Botanical ingredients are derived from plants (roots, seeds, bark, etc.) as a powder or an extract.
- Isolated nutrients are made artificially and are not naturally found in high does in nature, these include vitamins, minerals, amino acids, among others.
Wild Harvest
Our Botanical ingredients are carefully handpicked from wild remote regions of Asia and Africa to bring you a Harvest-To-Door experience. This method of harvest is called “Wild harvesting”. A wild harvest represents gathering plants that grow naturally in an untouched environment and in their native habitat, where the plant has access to clean water, unpolluted air, and rich soil.
Examples of Wild harvest supplements:
- Ashwagandha
- Malaysian and Indonesian Tongkat Ali
- Ghanaian and Nigerian Fadogia Agresitis
- Berberine
Isolated nutrients
NMN and Liposomal Vitamin C are examples of two supplements we sell that are isolated supplements. If we were to manufacture an NMN supplement exceeding 99% purity using natural plant material, it would be more expensive per gram than the scarcest precious minerals on the plant, would require huge amounts of energy and generate vast quantities of waste material that would have to be dealt with.
Laboratory Testing
We test all our ingredients for Identification, quality, and safety
Identification and Quality
Quality, purity, strength, and identity of our ingredients are tested using TLC*, FTIR** and HPLC*** These tests are performed by our manufacturing partners against every batch. In addition, we may use third parties with specialist knowledge to perform additional testing. Each supplement will be standarised to specific the active compound(s). Three examples below:
- Eurycomanone for Tongkat Ali Extract
- Withanolides for Ashwagandha
- Rutin content for Fadogia Agrestis
*Thin layer chromatography ** Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy *** High-performance liquid chromatography
Safety
We do everything we can to ensure all our supplements are free of microbial contamination and have the lowest levels of heavy metals.
Microbiological tests are looking for disease causing and spoilage microorganisms. Test sample must be absent of E. coli, Salmonella and Staphylococcus aureus.
Heavy metals are considered toxic and have adverse health effects on the human metabolism. The key metals tested are Lead, Arsenic, Mercury, and Cadmium and must not exceed safe specifications.