How PEAOID is made, milled and proven.
Palmitoylethanolamide is a simple molecule to draw and an easy one to make badly. The variables that separate a good lot from a poor one are feedstock quality, purification, and control of the milling step.
Made, not traded.
Palmitoylethanolamide occurs in nature but cannot be extracted economically at scale, so all commercial material is produced rather than harvested. PEAOID is produced in our own facility, from a natural plant-derived starting material, under our own quality system — not bought in drums and relabelled.
Qualified starting material
A natural, plant-derived input, released against an incoming specification before it enters the process. No animal-origin materials and no animal-derived processing aids at any stage.
Controlled production
Manufactured to a fixed, validated process under documented batch records, with in-process controls, change control and cleaning validation between products. Process parameters are locked, which is what makes one lot resemble the last one.
Particle-size control
Micronization is the step where PEA suppliers genuinely differ — the published literature acknowledges this material is difficult to mill. Our milling parameters are fixed and the resulting distribution is measured, not assumed.
Full release testing
Every lot tested against the complete internal panel, including laser-diffraction particle size. Nothing ships on a skip-lot basis.
Retention & traceability
Batch genealogy recorded from starting material to finished drum, with a retention sample held for the full 36-month retest period.
Packed for transit
Double food-grade liner inside an HDPE or fibre drum, tamper-evident and fully labelled. The batch certificate of analysis is issued before despatch, not after.
Why the process detail is not on this page
Route, reaction conditions, solvent system and milling parameters are the part of this business that took work to get right, and they are not published. What we will do is answer any question your QA or technical team needs answered to qualify us — in writing, under NDA, including a process flow diagram at the level of detail an audit requires.
What we test, and why each one is on the list.
Every parameter on our specification exists because it can go wrong, not because it fills a page.
- Assay by HPLC — the headline number, and the only one most suppliers quote. Necessary, nowhere near sufficient.
- Free palmitic acid and free ethanolamine — unreacted starting materials. High residuals point to an under-controlled amidation.
- Related substances — by-products from over-heating or poor purification.
- Residual solvents by headspace GC — the crystallization step uses solvent; ICH Q3C sets the limits.
- Elemental impurities by ICP-MS — lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury, driven by feedstock and equipment.
- Microbiology — total count, yeast and mould, and absence of E. coli, Salmonella and S. aureus.
- Loss on drying — residual moisture affects flow, milling behavior and stability.
- Particle-size distribution by laser diffraction — the parameter that actually determines how your finished dose performs.
- Bulk and tapped density — so your encapsulation team can size the shell before the drum arrives.
Credentials, stated exactly.
PEAOID is manufactured by Aurora Farmabio Pvt Ltd, Vadodara. Here is precisely what is in place today — no badge we have not earned, and no logo borrowed from a trading partner.
FSSAI approved — Form II
Palmitoylethanolamide is approved to Aurora Farmabio Pvt Ltd under India’s Non-Specified Food and Food Ingredients Regulations, with a valid Form II — in our own name, not a third party’s file number.
Documented quality system
Manufacture against good manufacturing practice: batch records, in-process controls, change control, deviation handling and cleaning validation between products. Records are available for audit.
Full release testing
Every lot released against the complete panel on this page — HPLC assay, FTIR and NMR identity, ICP-MS elemental impurities, headspace GC residual solvents, microbiology and laser-diffraction particle size.
Traceability & retention
Feedstock qualified on receipt, batch genealogy recorded through synthesis and milling, and a retention sample held for the full retest period.
Vegan & allergen-free
No animal-origin inputs or processing aids. Written declaration covering the fourteen major allergens plus gluten and soy protein, and BSE/TSE absence.
Certification status — asked and answered
You will not find a row of certification logos on this page, and that is deliberate. We display only what we hold. What is in place today is our own FSSAI approval for palmitoylethanolamide, a documented quality system, and the full release panel above. Third-party scheme certifications — and market-specific attestations such as kosher or halal — are assessed against genuine customer demand rather than collected as decoration; ask us for the current position for your market and you will get it in writing, including where the answer is “not yet”.
If you are comparing PEA suppliers, ask each of them for certificate numbers, the site the certificate names, and the expiry date. It is a short question, it takes two minutes to answer honestly, and it is remarkably clarifying.
Where our investment actually goes
Aurora Farmabio is an ingredient developer, not a scheme collector. The money goes into process and product development — controlling the milling step, characterizing the material properly, building the analytical methods, and developing formats such as the cold water dispersible grade that solve problems a certificate cannot. That is the intellectual property a formulator actually buys, and it is what the specification on this site is evidence of.
The qualification pack
Requested once, issued as a set. Designed so a QA reviewer can open and close a supplier file without a second email.
Technical
Product specification · Analytical method summary · Representative CoA · Particle-size report · Stability summary · Bulk density data
Safety
GHS safety data sheet · Heavy-metals report · Residual-solvent report · Microbiological report · Toxicology summary
Declarations
Allergen statement · BSE/TSE and animal-origin-free · GMO status · Vegan · Irradiation · Nanomaterial · Melamine · Latex
Commercial
Process flow diagram · Country of origin · HS code · Packing specification · FSSAI approval reference · Regulatory position by market
Request a specification, a sample, or a quotation
Send us your target dose, format and volume. Our technical team replies with a full documentation pack — specification, method summary, batch CoA and regulatory dossier — within one business day.