Ceremony at yma hall of the Osato Research Institute on December 19.	Mr. Fumihiko Kimura, Chairman and CEO of JIA, and Mr. Yuki Hayashi, president of Osato Laboratory, Inc.
The certificate was handed to Mr. Hayashi by Mr. Kimura.	The JIA's first FSSC 22000 certificate with registration no. JS0001A
Strong shake hands as a symbol of starting new operation.

FSSC22000 has been developed by the EU Foundation for Food Safety Systems (FFSC Netherlands) as an integrated certification scheme based on the internationally recognized standard "ISO22000" and the British Standards Institute (BSI) specification "PAS220", which is highly appreciated by European worldwide food supply chain groups.
We have been challenging to get certified with FSSC22000, which is the strictest requirement for Food Safety Management System in Europe, since 2010, because we think the most important thing is Food safety for our production of Fermented Papaya Preparation. From now on, FPP is produced under ISO 9001, ISO140001, ISO22000 and FSSC22000.

Article on the JIA's first FSSC 22000 certificate in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (Business & Technology Daily News) on December 20, 2011
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In Canada, our products have been sold under the name of "Stimul'Ace" at pharmacies across the country since October 12, 2011 as Natural Health Products.

What is Natural Health Products?
Health Canada regulates natural medicines as a category of products separated from foods or drugs. These products are officially recognized as "Natural Health Products" and allowed to make health claims. In order to be marketed as natural health products in Canada, manufacturers must submit applications to Health Canada including information about uses, formulation, dosing, safety, and efficacy. Finished products licensed by Health Canada must be manufactured according to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) as outlined by Health Canada.

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Also, we exhibited Immun'Âge at the pharmagora show held at the Porte de Versailles in Paris, France from 26th to 28th of March, 2011. The Pharmagora is a trade show for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmaceutical industry, and this year 24,704 people participated in this event.

Many doctors visited our booth and expressed their high interests in the presentation of the numerous basic and clinical researches on Immun' Âge. We are looking forward to seeing how the marketing develops in future.

Natural Products Expo West 2011
Pharmagora show

Fortunately, we have not been affected by the earthquake and tsunami at all. All the employees and facilities are OK, and we have been operating as usual.
I think that your biggest concern is the radioactive pollution. In this context, I am pleased to say that Gifu prefecture measures radiation every day and that the measured level is within usual or normal value. Below is the latest official report showing radioactivity in Gifu. (The measurement point, Kakamuhara, is about 30km from our factory.)
The range of past usual figures in Gifu is 0.057－0.11 uSvh. Since the day of a hydrogen explosion on March 14, 2011 at the Nuclear Power Plants in Fukushima, the environmental radioactivity level in Gifu remains the same at 0.06μSv/h.

Besides, we use the papaya imported from the USA, which is subject to inspection by the US Dept. of Agriculture for every piece and the fermentation process of FPP takes at least 12 months. It means that all the materials and FPP, with which we produce final products, have been kept under control in our factory for more than 12 months. We are very certain that these materials are by no means affected by radiation.
In this website, you will see the message of "Healthy Air Travel and Stress Free Driving". I hesitated to write this information to public in the past, because I was afraid that I might give a negative impression about air travel. However, it is now a time for me to tell the truth.
There are many different types of radiation which forms a natural part of the environment where we live. Please see the chart below:

For example, during a round trip from Tokyo to New York, we suffer from the radiation of 200μSv.
After the occurrence of the Japanese Nuclear Power Plants problem, many foreigners flew back home. It means that they suffered from about 100μSv to return home whilst the reading of the environmental radioactivity level in Tokyo was 0.8μSv/h for a few hours after the hydrogen explosion at the Nuclear Power Plants in Fukushima. The figure of 0.8μSv/h was recorded only temporarily on March 15th and it became back normal to about 0.1μSv/h shortly.

Immun'Age has several clinical papers which show that it can protect us from DNA damage.
As you may know, the 200μSv from a round trip from Tokyo to New York is not the dangerous amount, but when you are tiered or sick, you may have difficulty to recover from the DNA damage by radiation.
That is why we have been sending this message to protect us from the radiation damage.

If you are interested in more scientific information, please visit the website of Osato Research Institute. >>>>> www.ori-japan.com