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Yellow beeswax is a refined beeswax obtained by melting comb walls in water and then removing contaminants/foreign matter so that the resulting wax complies with the specification laid down in the British Pharmacopoeia. Ideally production must also be controlled so that it complies with GMPII and the material must be accompanied with a certificate of analysis demonstrating compliance with the BP specification and the material must also have a BSE/TSE statement.
Cosmetic grade beeswax will not be the same if it isn't manufactured or certified to the same standard.
The initial quantities are small because we will have to work up manufacturing methodologies and stability data for the specialist cream but after that the quantities could be reasonable, i.e. multiples of 25Kg lots.
Self-certification that it has no BSE (or TSE) materials in its manufacture. Easy, surely? (No bits of cows or sheep anywhere near it.)
Complies with GMPII? Wassat? Google doesn't know of GMPII.
ADDED - Got it! Its actually GMP II "GMP II: Good Manufacturing Practice for Orthodox and Complementary Medicines" Not really sure of its relevance if the (natural) product meets the specifications.
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) is an international standard that governs all the activities related to product quality.
The South African Regulatory Authority describes GMP as “that part of Quality Assurance which ensures that products are consistently produced and controlled to the quality standards appropriate to their intended use and as required by the medicine registration or product specification. GMP is concerned with both production and quality control.
Depending on the business and its intended activities, all pharmaceutical companies in South Africa require licensing with both the Medicines Control Council and the Department of Health.
I'm pretty damn sure that no pharmaceutical company is going to be keeping its own bees in quality-standard approved hives, etc.
This stage is going to apply only to the packaging (and just possibly refining) of the product for this market.
Analysis certificate confirming BS specification? That looks like the expense and the distinguishing characteristic. But actually the BS specs that I can find online seem pretty loose. I daresay that most clean cappings wax would meet the specification, if it was tested.
Analysis cost is likely to outweigh the actual wax cost unless a large 'batch' were to be made and analysed.
So, for anyone producing cappings (doubt bright yellow beeswax really comes from melted comb walls!) in 25kg+ batches, it might be well worth keeping it away from other wax and sending some off for analysis.
