PERSONNEL NEWS

To better serve our existing customers and  promote additional expansion, under the direction of our National Sales Manager, Paul Howland, Stevita has employed the services of a highly dedicated and acknowledgeable  network of food industry  brokers to cover most of the USA.  They are;

1 - Phillip Tozzi and Associates covering the following states;

        NH, CT, PA, NJ, MA, NY, MD, VT, DE, VA, DC, and ME.

2 - Nature's Trading Co. , LLC covering the following states;

        GA, FL, SC, VA, TN, and AL.

3 - Horizon Marketing Ltd covering the following states;

        TX, LA, AR, OK, KS and MO.

4 - Classic Sales and Marketing  LLC covering the following states;

        IN, PA, MO, IL and ID.

5 - Breakout Sales and Marketing LLC covering the following states;

        CO, AZ, NV, CA, OR, WA, UT, NM and MT.

FARMING NEWS

       Steviafarma S/A, of Brazil, the producer of Stevita's products, is in the final stages of  ORGANIC  certification. The farm production has already been certified and now what remains to be certified are the extraction processes.

QUALITY CONTROL

       To improve the accuracy on the purity of the  various glycosides from the leaves of the Stevia plant, Steviafarma has developed specialized HPLC essays to determine with  high precision the percentage of these molecules on the final product. These methodologies will be submitted to the JECFA ( UN Health Organization)  on their work towards developing better standards for all stevia's   steviol-glycosides, the sweet molecules produced by the leaves.