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How do you avoid cross-contamination of other products when a Thorne product contains an ingredient that is a known allergen?
Thorne maintains thorough Standard Operating Procedures for cleaning validation, which outline how to clean and sanitize all product- and non-product-contact surfaces to ensure cross-contamination doesn’t occur. After Thorne manufactures a product that contains a known allergen, we perform comprehensive cleaning and sanitization procedures that remove all allergenic protein from the production area. After this cleaning is completed, the entire production room and the equipment in it are swabbed and tested for the allergen to verify there is no allergen protein remaining. This ensures there will be no cross-contamination between ingredients and products that contain known allergens and those that do not.