Pharma-grade Amino Acids

Leading the way in amino acid quality and purity

The building blocks of life.

Amino acids are essential components of everything from pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and sports supplements to foods, food additives, and beauty products. For leading companies across all of these industries, Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition can be a key component of your success.

Pharma-Grade Amino Acids

The highest quality ingredients for your pharmaceutical grade products.

Specifications

We manufacture amino acids to the highest standards of purity and quality. This means we’re registered by, compliant with, or certified by all the appropriate quality standards: cGMP, JP, USP, EP, DMF, JDMF, CEP, ICH, CFR, and ISO. And that’s just for starters — because we maintain our own internal benchmarks that are, quite simply, second to none.

Milling & Blending

With our cGMP blending and pulverization services, we can produce amino acid blends to your exact specifications – so you can optimize production space, decrease analytical testing, and improve inventory management.

  • Environmentally controlled Class 100,000 suite
  • Pilot-scale 10-25 kgs batch size
  • Large scale 500-3500 kg batch size
  • Dediccility for amino acids
  • Custom and exclusive formulations and specifications
  • Custom packaging and labeling
  • Blending process development
  • Blend validation for quality control
  • Analytical support and technical service

Manufacturing & Packaging

Part of our job is to make your job as easy as possible. So once we create top-quality amino acids using our advanced fermentation manufacturing process and patented production technology, we make them available to you in the quantities you need.

In addition to Standard Bulk packaging — 20 kg, 25 kg and 50 kg sizes — we offer exactly the same pharmaceutical-grade amino acids in smaller 1 kg and 10 kg polyvinyl pails for R&D, product and process development, and clinical trials.

Industries

Our complete line of multi compendial-grade amino acids is ideal for use in mammalian cell culture media, excipients or as an API.
Easily enhance taste, texture, and nutritional value of food and beverage formulas
Meeting the nutritional and health needs of the animals that provide for us.

Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to common questions about Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition’s amino acids.
If you don’t see what you’re looking for, please contact us at NC_CSR@ajiusa.com

Orders or order status can be requested through Customer Service at NC_CSR@ajiusa.com or by calling 1-800-682-0982.

In addition, our small pack sizes can be placed through Customer Service, or ordered directly online with a credit card, at our small pack website store.ajiaminoacids.com

Pricing can be obtained by contacting customer service at NC_CSR@ajiusa.com or by calling customer service at

1-800-682-0982 during normal business hours, Monday – Friday 8 AM – 5 PM EST.

An account can be set up by contacting Customer Service at NC_CSR@ajiusa.com

The information requested for a new account setup includes:

  • Company Name
  • Contact information
  • Bill to and Ship to Address
  • A completed credit application
  • A review of the credit and bank references will be completed once we receive the information.

It generally takes about 10-12 business days to set up a new account.

Information required on the purchase order includes:

  • Company Name
  • Bill-to and Ship-to Address
  • Payment Terms
  • Freight Terms
  • Product code and Product Description
  • Quantity and Pricing

If you are tax exempt, please send your certificate to Customer Service at NC_CSR@ajiusa.com and allow 4-5 days for processing.

If your order has not been processed, you can provide your changes to Customer Service at NC_CSR@ajiusa.com

Ajinomoto standard payment terms are NET 30 days. 1 kg sizes placed directly online require a credit card.

8:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST Monday – Friday

Please contact technical services at nctechnicalservices@ajiusa.com, or call 919-723-2203 during normal business hours.

Our standard sample size is 100 grams and three distinct lot numbers can be requested for validation purposes.

Please complete the sample request form on this website.

If you are looking for N-Acetyl-DL-Tryptophan, Aminocaproic Acid or N-Acetyl-L-Tyrosine, Glycylglycine, Glycyl-L-Glutamine or Alanyl-L-Glutamine please contact NC_CSR@ajiusa.com

These documents can be requested through our technical services group at nctechnicalservices@ajiusa.com

Pharmaceutical grade amino acids undergo additional purification steps and/or undergo additional testing which includes endotoxin testing. For food-grade packaging options, please contact NC_CSR@ajiusa.com.

Our amino acids are handled exclusively with IMCD Canada at 1-800-575-3382

You can find our Terms and Conditions by clicking here

Request a Sample

Easily order a sample for analysis or to test in your new product formulation