The Integrative Medicine Institute's
Physician's Natural Product Certification Program

Verifying those elements of natural product production 
that effect their Safety, Purity and Effectiveness

Now you can...

• increase consumer trust,
• improve product identity, 
• and capture greater market share... 

Do you know that up to 50% of your competitor's products don't contain the ingredients stated on the label? 

And how much this affects your company's sales?

According to the recent reports in the popular media "the consumer has a 50 - 50 chance of buying a natural product supplement that actually contains the ingredients that the label claims are in the product and nothing else."

The Integrative Medicine Institute's Certification Program
was created to help you rise above the competition, using criteria that Doctors helped formulate, to distinguish quality products for their patients.

This certification program is indispensable for providing your company with independent third party verification of the superior quality of your product and the factors that effect it's purity, safety, and effectiveness.

Our Mission Statement

Verifying and validating information on natural products 
that affect their safety, purity and effectiveness.

Physician's Natural Product Certification Program
Five Point Criteria:

Ingredients assayed - Raw /Finished
Manufacturing Process
Quality Assurance
Truth / Accuracy in Labeling
Expert Research Review

Time Frame and Fees
We will begin to process your file upon receipt. Each product evaluation costs $195.00. If you submit multiple products simultaneously, the subsequent product evaluations are $150.00 per product.

We will report back to you if we need any further supportive documents. You will have two weeks to respond. If no response is forthcoming after the two-week period, the product evaluation will be based on the current information. Further submissions after the two-week period will be charged $50.00.

Once a certification decision is reached we will notify you and provide you with a two-week timeframe to provide further documentation if you do not qualify for all give components of the certification seal.

After these two weeks your five-part certification results will be published. We will only publish the approved certifications — the remaining certifications will be omitted. Until you have earned approval of all five certification components, you are restricted from the use of the certification seal.

When the full certification is awarded you will have a full year from that date for use of the seal on marketing, advertising, literature and product label. If you have subsequent product manufacturing runs during the certification year, each separate run will require updated paperwork for certification ($50.00 fee per upgrade submission).

The following information for each product is needed to process each certificate:

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE INSTITUTE
Applying Professional Health Standards to Alternative Medicine 
8323 Sharon Drive, Frederick, MD 21704
phone 301-874-1797 fax 301-874-1798

PNPCP Check List"

Product Name ____________________________________________ 
Date of manufacture ________________

Product Benefits __________________________________________

This is a check list of reports and information needed to verify the certificate process:

DOCUMENTATION: Include this check list as cover sheet for each product.

Please send completed package for each product
* Multiple product submissions need only submit one copy of * items

All proprietary information is held in the strictest confidence, 
please clearly mark sensitive, proprietary materials. 

To request more information on the Physician's Natural Product Certification Program, please complete the following form (all fields required):