# StripWorks: complete company and oral film manufacturing brief
Last updated: 2026-09-16
Canonical website: https://stripworks.com/
Contact: hello@stripworks.com
Business phone: +1-619-777-8922
Project brief: https://stripworks.com/#start
Address: 1935 Cordell Court, El Cajon, CA 92020, USA (San Diego County)
Location page: https://stripworks.com/san-diego-oral-film-manufacturer
Founded: 2026
Service area: San Diego County and Southern California first; nationwide and worldwide by shipment

## Company identity
StripWorks is an oral dissolving film (ODF) and oral strip contract manufacturer in San Diego, California. It is not a pharmacy and is not affiliated with Scriptworks, ScriptWorks Rx, or any compounding pharmacy; it is not the aerosol product "Stripworks" sold by USSC.
StripWorks develops and manufactures private-label, white-label, OEM and custom oral dissolving films (also called oral strips, oral thin films, dissolvable strips, ODF, mouth-dissolving films, melt strips) for supplement, wellness, clinic, ingredient, pet and specialty-product brands. Qualified projects start with a 500-box pilot — about 10,000 strips in 20-count boxes or 15,000 strips in 30-count boxes — before any larger run. StripWorks does not currently claim cGMP certification, FDA registration, ISO or NSF certification; it publishes what its process includes and what it tests. Every project is proposed individually; StripWorks does not publish development pricing.

## Specifications and policies (development targets and standards, not claims that a specific finished product has been manufactured)
- Format: Single-layer oral dissolving film strip, one strip per sachet, packed in retail cartons (StripWorks standard)
- Strip dimensions: 22 × 32 mm standard development format; custom dimensions and geometries within the qualified converting envelope (StripWorks development standard)
- Dry-film thickness: Approximately 50–150 μm, formulation dependent (StripWorks development range)
- Finished strip weight: Approximately 100–300 mg; high-load formats may use a larger film or a multi-strip serving (StripWorks development range)
- Dissolve time: Approximately 30–60 seconds standard fast-dissolve target, formulation dependent; faster-dissolving systems can be developed for suitable formulas (StripWorks development target)
- Active loading per strip: Up to approximately 250 mg of a single active in standard feasibility work, formulation dependent; higher total solids, larger formats and multi-strip servings can be developed (StripWorks feasibility envelope)
- Pilot quantity: 500 boxes for qualified projects (StripWorks fact)
- Strips per pilot: About 10,000 strips in 20-count boxes or 15,000 strips in 30-count boxes (StripWorks fact)
- Carton and pack formats: 10-, 12-, 20-, 28-, 30- and 60-count cartons; wallet and pocket packs; sample and trial packs; AM/PM dual-system cartons; custom multi-strip pouches by feasibility (Available at pilot scale)
- Primary packaging: One strip per high-barrier PET / aluminum / PE heat-seal sachet, lot-coded; no desiccant inside the sachet by default, secondary-pack desiccant when a stability program shows benefit (StripWorks standard)
- Child-resistant packaging: Certified child-resistant secondary pouches or cartons where law, channel or specification requires them; a standard foil sachet is not described as child-resistant (Through packaging partners)
- Shelf-life target: 24 months, subject to product-specific stability data; store in a cool, dry place protected from heat, humidity and direct light (StripWorks target)
- Release testing: Appearance; dimensions and weight; moisture or water activity where relevant; seal integrity and coding reconciliation; potency to specification; content uniformity where dose-critical; microbiological controls appropriate to the formula (Standard on every lot)
- Third-party testing: Independent analytical testing through ILS Lab; heavy metals, pesticides, residual solvents, allergens, probiotic enumeration, dissolution and formal stability defined per project (Accredited laboratory partner)
- Lot documentation: Lot Release Packet with finished-product COA, certificate of conformance, lot identification, quantity reconciliation, packaging identification and applicable third-party results; complete batch record retained for audit (Every released lot)
- Samples: Stock reference samples complimentary for qualified brands when available; development samples within the R&D program; customer materials accepted after an intake reference is issued (Policy)
- Typical timing: Feasibility review 3–5 business days · formula development 2–4 weeks · sample iteration 1–3 weeks · pilot manufacturing 2–4 weeks after approvals · analytical testing and release about 1 week (Most new custom programs: 6–10 weeks to released pilot product)

## What StripWorks can formulate
From vitamins and minerals to branded botanicals, nootropics, probiotics, beauty-from-within ingredients, sports-nutrition actives and custom functional blends, we support more than 100 formulation starting points and fully custom oral-film development. High-load projects, premium branded ingredients, specialty packaging and market-specific formulations are scoped through the technical team.
Representative development targets from the current library: caffeine up to 80 mg; KSM-66 ashwagandha up to 250 mg; bacopa systems up to 160 mg; CoQ10 up to 150 mg; NMN up to 150 mg; collagen 100 mg; iron up to 27 mg elemental; L-citrulline 200 mg; LJ100 200 mg; probiotic systems of approximately 5–17 billion CFU input, strain dependent; melatonin 5 mg adult benchmark; zinc up to 10 mg adult benchmark; lion's mane 50 mg in the current mushroom-blend benchmark. All final doses remain formulation-, safety-, regulatory- and stability-dependent, and a development target is not a claim that a finished product has already been manufactured.

## How a project runs
1. Project brief — Every project starts with a written brief: actives, target amount per strip, serving plan, flavor direction, pack count, launch market, claims, timing and forecast. We separate requirements from preferences so the tradeoffs stay visible.
2. Feasibility review — We check whether the active system fits a film at the requested dose. Load, solubility, taste, moisture sensitivity and dissolve behavior all pull on each other. The review takes 3–5 business days and ends with a yes, a no, or a list of what development has to prove.
3. Formula and flavor development — The film base is a water-soluble polymer, a plasticizer, sweeteners, flavors and the active. Sensory criteria are written before any sample is judged. Rounds continue until the strip meets the criteria, not until someone in the room likes it. Formula development runs 2–4 weeks; sample iteration 1–3 weeks.
4. Qualified 500-box pilot — Qualified projects begin with a 500-box pilot: about 10,000 strips in 20-count boxes or 15,000 in 30-count boxes. The pilot runs the complete system, including sachet sealing, carton packout and lot coding. It is production at learning scale, not a lab batch. Pilot manufacturing takes 2–4 weeks after formula, material and packaging approvals.
5. Testing — Finished strips are checked against the approved specification: appearance, dimensions and weight, moisture or water activity where relevant, seal integrity and coding reconciliation, potency, content uniformity where dose-critical, and microbiological controls suited to the formula. Third-party analytical work runs through ILS Lab. Results are recorded against the lot; testing and release take about a week.
6. Packaging — Strips are sealed one per high-barrier PET/aluminum/PE sachet and assembled into 20-count or 30-count cartons. Sachet structure, seal width, tear notch, print method, artwork and lot and expiration fields are confirmed before the pilot, because printed components have their own minimums and lead times. Packaging is on the critical path from the first week.
7. Documentation — Each released lot ships with a Lot Release Packet: finished-product certificate of analysis, certificate of conformance, lot identification, quantity reconciliation, packaging identification and the applicable third-party results. We retain the executed batch record. Lot codes on sachet and carton tie the product back to those records, and the document set is agreed in scoping so retailers, marketplaces and importers get what they ask for.
8. Scale and reorder — The pilot ends with a locked formula, sensory criteria, packaging specification and testing plan. Reorders run against that specification, so 1,000, 3,000 or 5,000 boxes are a production and purchasing decision rather than a restart.

## Core service pages
- https://stripworks.com/oral-dissolving-film-manufacturer — USA-based ODF strip and oral dissolving film manufacturing for private-label, OEM, and custom brands, from 500-box pilots to packaging and scale-up.
- https://stripworks.com/private-label-oral-strips — Put your brand on a proven oral strip. Qualified private-label projects start at 500 boxes with branded sachets and cartons, lot testing and a reorder spec.
- https://stripworks.com/oral-thin-film-contract-manufacturing — Contract manufacturing for oral thin films and dissolving strips: feasibility, custom formulation, 500-box pilots, sachets, cartons, lot testing and scale-up.
- https://stripworks.com/oral-film-packaging-scale-up — Sachet barrier data, carton counts, child-resistant test criteria, and what changes between a 500-box pilot and a 5,000-box run of oral film strips.

## Ingredient pages (one active, one page)
- https://stripworks.com/oral-strips/melatonin-strips — Yes. At 1 to 10 mg, melatonin is 1 to 7 percent of a 150 mg film, inside the 5 to 30 percent active range published for orodispersible films. The work is elsewhere: keeping a mildly bitter, light-sensitive molecule evenly dispersed, making it taste like bedtime rather than candy, choosing a package a toddler cannot open, and writing a label counsel will sign. Our standard adult ceiling is 5 mg per strip. A qualified project runs feasibility, sensory rounds and a 500-box pilot before any larger batch.
- https://stripworks.com/oral-strips/vitamin-b12-strips — Yes, and load is never the issue: 1,000 mcg is 1 mg, under 1 percent of a 150 mg film. The effort goes into the form. Methylcobalamin lost 44 percent in 60 minutes under fluorescent light in one published test and is the least stable cobalamin below pH 4; cyanocobalamin gives margin. Either way the strip will be pink. We build both; methyl projects get an opaque-foil, low-light handling protocol and a product-specific stability plan before the 500-box pilot.
- https://stripworks.com/oral-strips/caffeine-energy-strips — Yes, up to about 80 mg. Caffeine (194 g/mol) is not the loading problem; taste is. Its bitterness recognition threshold in water is roughly 0.25 to 0.6 g/L, and a 50 mg strip dissolving into a millilitre of saliva is about a hundred times that. Retail strips run 40 to 80 mg for that reason and nobody sells a single 200 mg film. Our standard quote ceiling is 80 mg per strip; anything higher is a two-strip serving or a different format.
- https://stripworks.com/oral-strips/nad-plus-strips — Rarely at 100 mg in one strip. NAD+ is hygroscopic, acidic, and hydrolyzes in water at neutral-to-alkaline pH; 100 mg in a 300 mg film is a third of the dry weight, above the 5 to 30 percent active range published for orodispersible films. Two 50 mg strips, a lower dose, or nicotinamide riboside are the usual outcomes of feasibility. NAD+ projects are custom-scoped; NMN development targets run up to 150 mg with a supplier dossier before acceptance, and every claim stays in structure/function language.
- https://stripworks.com/oral-strips/collagen-biotin-beauty-strips — Yes for biotin, hyaluronic acid and vitamin blends; only partly for collagen. Biotin (244 g/mol) at 5,000 mcg is 5 mg, about 3 percent of a 150 mg film. Hydrolyzed collagen at the 2,500 to 10,000 mg on powder labels would take 25 to 100 whole strips. Our development target for collagen is about 100 mg per strip, which is where the retail products that carry it sit (60 to 100 mg), and claims have to be substantiated at that dose.
- https://stripworks.com/oral-strips/electrolyte-hydration-strips — Yes, at film-scale doses. Retail electrolyte strips carry about 10 mg sodium and 15 mg potassium per strip, which is 25 mg of sodium chloride and 29 mg of potassium chloride; a drink-mix stick delivers 1,000 mg of sodium. A strip is a light, portable, no-water electrolyte product taken with water, not a rehydration solution, and the label must say so. Feasibility sets the salt load, taste work manages the salty-bitter-metallic profile, and a 500-box pilot follows.

## Category pages
- https://stripworks.com/categories/energy-oral-strips — The pitch for a caffeine strip is easy: coffee without the cup, a shot without the can, something that lives in a jeans pocket. The panel is the hard part. Retail strips cluster at 40 mg of caffeine (Revvies, EZStrip), with 50 mg on Hale's Energy + Focus strip and 80 mg per serving on ODiSTRYPE. Shoppers who buy them already know a 12 oz brewed coffee runs 113 to 247 mg by FDA's own figures, so the credible position is a small dose that can be stacked, and the directions have to say where stacking stops. FDA cites 400 mg a day as the amount not generally associated with negative effects in healthy adults; at 40 mg a strip that is ten strips, and most labels cap far lower. Actives discussed: Caffeine (anhydrous) (Fits in one strip up to our 80 mg development ceiling. Bitter; needs masking. Above 80 mg goes to technical and safety review.); Vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin) (Fits easily. Turns the film pink-red and adds a faint metallic note, so write the appearance spec around it.); L-theanine (as a caffeine partner) (Fits in one strip beside 40–50 mg caffeine. At 100 mg theanine plus 50 mg caffeine the pair uses most of the active budget and thickens the strip.); Green tea extract / green tea caffeine (Fits. Astringent and tan-green, and the extract's moisture trades against film strength. Specify it by caffeine and polyphenol assay, not a generic grade.); B-vitamin complex (B6, niacin, pantothenic acid) (Fits. Use niacinamide rather than nicotinic acid to avoid flushing; B2 and B6 add a yellow tint and a sulfur note at higher loads.).
- https://stripworks.com/categories/sleep-oral-strips — A sleep founder's first argument is over the melatonin number. Retail strips sit at 3 mg (Unisom Simple Slumbers, Calmour) and 5 mg (NuStrips Sleep, MaryRuth's), with Wellbeing Nutrition offering 5 and 10 mg. The research cuts the other way: MIT's Wurtman group found about 0.3 mg restores sleep in adults over 50 and that the 3 mg retail dose was less effective and left daytime melatonin elevated. Meanwhile a 2023 analysis cited by NCCIH found products testing at 74 to 347 percent of their labeled melatonin. So the two things a buyer checks are the milligram on the front and whether the brand can prove it. A film helps with the second: melatonin at 1 to 5 mg is a tiny fraction of the strip's mass, and content uniformity across the cast sheet is the quality attribute that matters. Actives discussed: Melatonin (Fits at any retail strength; 5 mg is our adult ceiling without further review. Uniformity across the sheet, not load, is the spec that matters. No standard child-targeted program.); L-theanine (Fits in one strip. Slight umami note; berry and mint cover it.); Magnesium (glycinate or citrate) (About 25 mg elemental per strip is our target; higher loads mean a larger film or a multi-strip serving.); GABA (25 mg per strip is our development target. Fits; mild taste.); Valerian root or chamomile extract (Chamomile fits with light masking. Valerian's earthy odor dominates a film; keep it small or leave it off. Extract color and moisture need review.); Vitamin B6 (Fits easily; no taste at label amounts.).
- https://stripworks.com/categories/focus-oral-strips — Most focus briefs arrive with a capsule formula attached: 300 mg alpha-GPC, 300 mg bacopa, 500 mg lion's mane, 200 mg theanine. A single film carries about 250 mg of active in total, so the first job is triage. The pairing with published support at strip-sized amounts is caffeine plus L-theanine: a placebo-controlled crossover study found 40 mg caffeine with 97 mg L-theanine improved task-switching accuracy and self-rated alertness, and Owen's 2008 study used 50 mg with 100 mg. Retail follows the same shape; Hale's Energy + Focus strip runs 50 mg caffeine, 30 mg theanine and 1,000 mcg B12. The stim-free side is mushrooms: FLX Focus lists 30 mg lion's mane with 25 mg maitake, 25 mg cordyceps and 20 mg shiitake in a chocolate strip. Actives discussed: Caffeine + L-theanine pairing (Fits in one strip. 50 mg caffeine with 100 mg theanine uses most of the active budget; 80 mg caffeine is our ceiling without further review. Bitter; needs masking.); L-theanine (stim-free calm focus) (Fits in one strip. Savory background note is easy to flavor over.); Lion's mane extract (50 mg per strip is our benchmark. Fits; earthy and tan, so the appearance spec must accept the tint. Specify the extract ratio and beta-glucan assay.); Alpha-GPC (15 mg per strip is our benchmark, well below capsule doses. Hygroscopic. A label-driven amount, not a dose-driven one.); Vitamin B6 / B12 (Fits easily; B12 tints the film pink.); Bacopa, rhodiola or ginseng extract (Bacopa fits at 100–160 mg in one strip but sets the strip size. Rhodiola and ginseng are bitter and astringent, supporting actives only. Specify the extract and standardization in the brief.).
- https://stripworks.com/categories/beauty-oral-strips — Beauty founders usually start from a powder or gummy panel and want it in a prettier format. Biotin translates cleanly: 5,000 mcg per strip is the retail standard (an orange-flavored 30-strip listing on Amazon; NuStrips Beauty pairs it with folate and vitamin E in strawberry). That figure is 167 times the 30 mcg adult Adequate Intake, and no upper limit has been set, but FDA has warned that high-dose biotin skews lab tests that use biotin-streptavidin chemistry, including troponin and thyroid assays. A label caution is worth considering. Collagen is where expectations break: powders run 5 to 20 grams a scoop, and the Check My Body Health Beauty + Collagen strip lists 100 mg of peptides with 6 mg vitamin E in a mango film, which is also our development target. Actives discussed: Biotin (Fits at every retail strength with no taste impact. Consider a lab-test interference caution on the label.); Collagen peptides (100 mg per strip is our development target and fills much of the strip. Higher loads need a larger film or multi-strip serving.); Hyaluronic acid (Fits. Hygroscopic, so above a few milligrams it slows dissolve and needs moisture control.); Vitamin C and vitamin E (Vitamin C fits but is sour and moisture-sensitive; vitamin E needs a dry or emulsified form. Both fit in one strip at these amounts.); Folate and vitamin D3 (hair-support cofactors) (Fits. D3 up to 2,000 IU per strip before additional safety review; the adult upper limit is 4,000 IU per day.); PDRN / resveratrol (K-beauty and 'glow' actives) (Custom-scoped. PDRN is not an established US supplement ingredient and needs a separate regulatory and technical review.).
- https://stripworks.com/categories/hydration-oral-strips — The founder who wants an electrolyte strip usually has a powder stick in hand that lists 500 to 1,000 mg of sodium. A strip does not get near that. Solves Strips, the adult reference on Amazon, labels 10 mg sodium and 15 mg potassium per berry-flavored strip; CVS Health's pediatric electrolyte strips, sold in 20-strip cassettes, work out to about 6 mg sodium and 2 mg potassium each. For scale, the adult Adequate Intake is 1,500 mg sodium and 2,600 to 3,400 mg potassium a day. The honest product is a little, fast, anywhere, or a multi-strip serving; it is not a rehydration dose, and the label should say the per-strip milligrams plainly. Actives discussed: Sodium (as sodium chloride or citrate) (Fits at label amounts. Hygroscopic, so film moisture and sachet barrier need control.); Potassium (as citrate or chloride) (Fits. Bitter-metallic above small amounts; needs masking.); Magnesium (About 25 mg elemental per strip is our target; higher loads mean a larger film or a multi-strip serving.); Chloride (Fits; contributes the saline taste.); Vitamin C or B vitamins (recovery positioning) (Fits. Vitamin C adds sourness that pairs with citrus flavors.); Coconut water powder (Fits at small amounts. Adds sugars and moisture; the powder grade has to be checked against the film system.).
- https://stripworks.com/categories/immune-oral-strips — Immune founders want the 1,000 mg vitamin C number on the front. A film gives them 40. BIOSTRIPS Immune Support, the retail reference, lists 40 mg vitamin C and 600 IU vitamin D3 with zinc, elderberry and ginseng in an orange strip, 30 to a box. That 40 mg is a real share of the adult RDA (90 mg men, 75 mg women) and absorption is close to 100 percent at doses under 200 mg, whereas a 1,000 mg capsule is partly excreted. Vitamin D3 is the active that lets a strip carry a full daily amount: 600 IU is the adult RDA outright, and our review threshold of 2,000 IU sits under the 4,000 IU upper limit. So the credible panel leads with D3, states vitamin C and zinc honestly, and sells the occasion: flights, commutes, back-to-school, the winter shelf. Actives discussed: Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) (Fits at 40–60 mg in one strip. Sour and moisture-sensitive; it sets the sweetener balance and the stability plan.); Vitamin D3 (Fits at any retail strength. Up to 2,000 IU per strip before additional safety review; the adult upper limit is 4,000 IU per day.); Zinc (10 mg per strip is our adult target, 6 mg for kids. Metallic and astringent; needs masking.); Elderberry extract (Fits at extract-level amounts. Deep purple and tart, which suits the category.); Vitamin B6 / B12 (Fits easily.); Ginseng or echinacea extract (Bitter; supporting active only. Specify the standardization in the brief.).
- https://stripworks.com/categories/longevity-oral-strips — Longevity buyers already spend on capsules, powders and NAD+ infusions, so a founder in this category is selling a format, not a discovery. The retail benchmark is 100 mg NAD+ per sublingual strip (Holte, Sven Labs, Connect Wellness, all 30 to a pack), and that number is close to the practical ceiling for one film; reaching it means a larger, thicker strip and a dissolve time the brand accepts. The regulatory story moved in 2025: FDA's letters of September 29, 2025 concluded NMN is not excluded from the dietary supplement definition, reversing its 2022 position, while leaving NMN a new dietary ingredient that still needs a premarket notification unless the material comes from a supplier with an accepted filing. Check the supplier's paperwork before the brief. Actives discussed: NAD+ (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) (Custom-scoped by ingredient identity, supplier documentation, stability and dose. 100 mg fills one strip and needs a thicker film.); NMN (nicotinamide mononucleotide) (Up to 150 mg per strip is our development target; a study dose needs two or three strips. Subject to the supplier's NDI documentation.); Trans-resveratrol (Fits at 20–50 mg in one strip. Bitter, colored and light-sensitive; needs masking and an opaque sachet.); CoQ10 (ubiquinone) (100 mg fits in one strip; 150 mg with higher-load systems. Oil-soluble, so it needs a dispersible form, and the film runs off-white to orange.); L-ergothioneine and other 'cellular' antioxidants (Fits. Costly inputs; confirm supplier and specification early.); Vitamin B3 forms (niacinamide as an NAD precursor) (Niacinamide fits easily with no flushing. Other precursors are custom-scoped by identity, regulatory status, stability and dose.).
- https://stripworks.com/categories/metabolic-wellness-oral-strips — The metabolic founder's problem is that the ingredients buyers ask for are dosed in grams. Berberine is 500 mg three times a day in the capsule regimens. ACV gummies list 500 mg or more. A film carries about 250 mg of active in total. The retail product that solved this is BIOSTRIPS Glucose Support: 250 mg Reducose white mulberry leaf extract, 25 mcg Chromax chromium picolinate and 40 mg apple cider vinegar in one strip. One studied extract carries the formula, chromium rides along at a microgram amount that matches the 25 to 35 mcg adult Adequate Intake, and the vinegar is there for flavor and the label, not for the gummy dose. Actives discussed: Chromium picolinate (e.g., Chromax) (Fits at any studied amount with no taste impact. A branded, studied form gives the panel the citation this category expects.); White mulberry leaf extract (e.g., Reducose) (Fits in one strip but at the top of the load range; it sets strip size and thickness. Mildly bitter and green-tinted.); Apple cider vinegar (powder) (Fits at 40–100 mg. Acidic and aromatic, so it defines the flavor system. Not a gummy-equivalent dose.); Green tea extract (EGCG) (Fits. Specify by caffeine, polyphenol and EGCG assay rather than a generic grade; the caffeine content has to show on the label math.); Berberine (Does not fit at a capsule-equivalent dose; that would take several strips. Intensely bitter and yellow. Usually not a strip hero, and a token amount is a brand decision.); Vitamin B complex and biotin (energy-metabolism cofactors) (Fits easily. A compliant way to carry 'energy metabolism' structure/function language.).
- https://stripworks.com/categories/mens-wellness-oral-strips — A men's brand usually arrives with a five-botanical capsule stack: ashwagandha, tongkat ali, fenugreek, maca, zinc, each at hundreds of milligrams. A film cannot carry all of them at useful amounts, so the first decision is which one leads. Retail shows the range: 365veda's KSM-66 strip lists 100 mg per strip in a berry 30-count, EZStrip Calm lists 33 mg, and one brand claims 300 mg. Our development target for KSM-66 is up to 250 mg per strip, which is close to the 300 mg used in the registered KSM-66 trials, so a one-strip serving near a studied amount is possible if ashwagandha is the hero and almost nothing else rides along. Wellbeing Nutrition's Testo Power melts take the other route, anchoring on Testofen fenugreek with shilajit, ginkgo and saffron at one strip a day. Actives discussed: Ashwagandha root extract (e.g., KSM-66) (Fits in one strip up to our 250 mg target when it is the only large active. Bitter; needs masking.); Fenugreek seed extract (e.g., Testofen) (Fits at 75–125 mg per strip depending on standardization. Bitter and maple-like.); Zinc (10 mg per strip is our adult target, 91% of the male RDA. Metallic; needs masking.); Tongkat ali (Eurycoma longifolia) extract (200 mg per strip is our development target, which leaves little room for anything else. Very bitter.); Maca root extract (Fits at about 50 mg. Malty and tolerable; a supporting active.); Vitamin D3, B12 and magnesium (daily nutrition) (D3 and B12 fit easily. Magnesium tops out near 25 mg elemental per strip; higher loads need a larger film or multi-strip serving.).
- https://stripworks.com/categories/womens-wellness-oral-strips — The women's founder's first question is usually iron, because iron tablets are the pill people stop taking. A film handles it: Hale's Iron + Folate strip labels 19 mg iron as ferric saccharate with 400 mcg DFE folate in a raspberry 30-count, and our ceiling is 27 mg elemental per strip. That covers the 18 mg RDA for women 19 to 50 and reaches the 27 mg pregnancy RDA, under the 45 mg upper limit. Iron is metallic and tints the film, so flavor work is the real job, and a little vitamin C on the panel has a published rationale: it reduces ferric iron to the ferrous form the gut absorbs. Folate at 400 mcg matches the amount the US Public Health Service recommends for anyone who could become pregnant, and the supplemental upper limit is 1,000 mcg. Actives discussed: Iron (ferric saccharate or other gentle forms) (Fits in one strip up to our 27 mg elemental ceiling. Metallic and tinting; needs strong masking. Dispersible or microencapsulated forms preferred.); Folate (folic acid or methylfolate) (Fits without dose or taste concern.); Vitamin B12, B6 and vitamin D3 (Fits easily. D3 up to 2,000 IU per strip before additional safety review.); Women's probiotic strains (e.g., Lactobacillus) (Custom-scoped. Our input range is 5–17 billion CFU per strip, with potency formulated to support the labeled CFU at expiry; viability evidence is required before the label is written.); Cranberry extract (PAC-standardized) (Fits at extract-level amounts. Tart and red; specify PAC standardization.); Ashwagandha or other stress botanicals (Fits at 33–100 mg beside other actives, or up to our 250 mg target as the hero. Bitter; needs masking.).
- https://stripworks.com/categories/pet-oral-film-manufacturing — A pet brand's problem is the animal, not the formula. Chews get spat out, pill pockets get eaten around the pill, and droppers turn into a wrestling match. A film placed on the tongue dissolves before the dog decides. The retail reference is PetStrips Travel & Calming Aid, 12 foil-sealed strips per box, each listing 20 mg chamomile, 20 mg L-tryptophan, 12 mg L-theanine, 6 mg ashwagandha and 0.8 mg melatonin, with a direction of one strip for dogs up to 70 lb and two above. Dental strips are labeled xylitol-free for a reason: FDA warns that xylitol can drop a dog's blood sugar within 10 to 60 minutes of ingestion, and xylitol is a common sweetener in human sugar-free films. It never goes in a dog product. Actives discussed: L-tryptophan, chamomile and melatonin (calming) (Fits in one strip at these amounts. Species and weight-band SKUs only, with veterinary and regulatory review.); L-theanine and vitamin B6 (calming co-actives) (Fits. The chicken flavor system covers the savory note.); Spearmint oil and thymol (fresh breath and dental) (Dog-only by default. Essential oils affect film formation and mint oils are on the feline toxicity lists, so a cat version needs a veterinary review of the specific oil and level.); Glucosamine and chondroitin (hip and joint) (Needs several strips for a chew-equivalent amount. A single strip is a supporting or maintenance dose; set the per-strip load in the brief.); Multivitamin panel (puppy and adult) (Micronutrients fit easily; minerals only in small amounts.); Probiotics or digestive enzymes (Custom-scoped. Our input range is 5–17 billion CFU per strip, with potency formulated to support the labeled CFU at expiry.).
- https://stripworks.com/categories/custom-oral-film-formulation — You searched this site for your ingredient and did not find it. That is the usual starting point for custom work: a specific active or branded ingredient, a dose or dissolve target the market does not already offer, a multi-layer or extended-dissolve design, or a flavor and brand experience the founder will not compromise on. The buyers are ingredient companies that want their compound shown in a finished format, brands with a hero capsule formula that needs translating, clinics with a defined protocol, and founders whose concept begins with an active rather than a category. The four questions are always load, taste, stability and claims. The answers depend on the active. Actives discussed: Your active (any category) (Feasibility sorts actives into four bands: microgram actives (vitamins, melatonin) fit easily; low-mg actives (caffeine, theanine, iron) fit with flavor work; 100–250 mg extracts set the strip size; multi-hundred-mg actives need multiple strips or a positioning change.); Branded or patented ingredients (Feasibility checks whether the study dose fits one strip; if not, a multi-strip serving or a lower 'support' amount is a brand decision. Supplier documentation feeds the ingredient file.); Bitter, astringent or aromatic actives (Needs masking through sweetener systems, flavor load, cooling agents or encapsulated forms. Sensory criteria are written before rounds start.); Oil-soluble or colored actives (Needs a dispersible or dry form, and the appearance spec has to accept the color the active brings.); Moisture-, heat- or light-sensitive actives (Stability is tied to the package and storage condition against the 24-month target. Probiotic viability through drying needs evidence before the label is written; scope is set per active.); New dietary ingredients and regulatory-sensitive compounds (Custom-scoped with explicit boundaries. The peptide feasibility guide on this site explains what is and is not in scope; read it before submitting a brief.).

## Buyer guides
- https://stripworks.com/insights/how-to-launch-an-oral-strip-brand — Write a one-page brief, confirm the active physically fits in a strip before you spend on branding, then pilot in the pack count you intend to sell. For a supplement, the regulatory work (facility registration, Supplement Facts panel, structure/function notification) runs alongside development, not after it.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/oral-film-pilot-runs-and-moq — State the minimum in finished boxes, then convert: 500 boxes is 10,000 strips at 20-count or 15,000 at 30-count. Add about 3 percent for release testing and reserve samples, work out the active weight, and model 1,000, 3,000 and 5,000 boxes with the same assumptions before you approve the first run.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/oral-film-packaging-guide — An oral strip is a thin hygroscopic film, so the sachet is part of the formulation. Use a foil laminate (PET/aluminum/PE) for anything with a shelf-life claim or a moisture- or oxygen-sensitive active; metallized film is a cost option only when the data supports it. Carton counts from 10 to 60 cover retail, and every sachet needs lot and expiry coding.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/choosing-an-oral-film-manufacturer — Judge an oral film manufacturer on four things you can verify: the dose and dissolve limits they will put in writing, the size of the smallest run they will release with full testing, the documents they hand over per lot, and who supplies the sachets and cartons. Price only means something once those four are fixed.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/private-label-vs-custom-oral-films — Pick private label when the product concept already sells at retail and your edge is brand, channel or audience. Pick custom when the dose, active combination or sensory target is the product. The label, registration and notification rules are identical on both paths; only the development loops differ.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/how-oral-dissolving-films-are-made — Almost every oral strip on the market is solvent-cast: a water-based mass of film polymer, plasticizer, active, sweetener, and flavor is spread as a wet layer, dried at roughly 40 to 60 °C into a film about 50 to 150 μm thick, slit and cut into strips, sealed into foil sachets, and released against a written specification. The chemistry is not exotic. The discipline is in the numbers.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/oral-film-dose-loading-feasibility — A 22 × 32 mm strip holds roughly 100 to 300 mg of dry film, and published oral films load actives at about 5 to 30 % of dry weight. That puts comfortable single-strip doses in the low tens of milligrams. We plan up to about 250 mg of a single active only when it is soluble, bland, and heat-stable, and we say no to films above that.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/oral-film-testing-stability-plan — Release testing answers "is this lot what the spec says"; stability answers "for how long." A strip release panel is appearance, dimensions and weight, moisture or water activity, seal and coding, potency, content uniformity where the dose matters, and micro. Shelf life comes from real-time data at 25 °C/60 % RH; the 40 °C/75 % RH study is an early-warning tool, not a substitute.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/odf-otf-sublingual-buccal-film-terms — Orodispersible film (ODF) is the pharmacopoeial term: a single- or multilayer sheet that disperses rapidly in the mouth. Sublingual and buccal describe where a film is placed, not how much is absorbed. Oral thin film (OTF), fast-dissolving strip and melt-in-mouth strip are trade and search terms with no measurable content. Write the specification in ODF terms and keep placement words off the front panel unless you have data behind them.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/oral-film-manufacturing-timeline — A qualified oral film project reaches released pilot product in about 6–10 weeks: feasibility 3–5 business days, formula development 2–4 weeks, sample iteration 1–3 weeks, pilot production 2–4 weeks, then roughly a week for third-party testing and the Lot Release Packet. Those are development targets. Packaging lead time and unanswered questions are what push a project past ten weeks.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/oral-film-oem-private-label-white-label — The labels describe who brings the formula and who takes the risk, not a fixed service. White label is a finished product with your name on it; private label adds choices; OEM means the supplier builds to your specification; custom means the specification is developed for you. Write the responsibilities into the quote and the acronym stops mattering.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/peptide-oral-film-feasibility — Most peptides sold online as "research" products (BPC-157, GLP-1 analogues, growth-hormone secretagogues) are drugs, not dietary ingredients, and we will not quote them as supplements. Small peptides with a history of supplement use, such as glutathione and carnosine, can be evaluated for a film and fit the dose targets. For any peptide, the film questions are pH, water, heat during casting, and whether an absorption claim is being made that no supplement strip can support.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/oral-film-flavor-masking-taste-development — A strip dissolves on the tongue in 30 to 60 s with nothing to swallow it with, so every bitter or metallic note in the active is tasted at full strength. Masking works from four tools, in rising order of how much film mass they cost: high-intensity sweeteners, flavor and cooling agents, acid balance, and complexation. Decide the serving plan before you tune the flavor.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/oral-film-specifications-batch-documentation — A specification is a table of attributes, methods, and limits that both parties sign before the lot is made. The batch record proves the lot followed it, the COA reports the results, and the release packet ties film, sachet, carton, and third-party results to one lot number. If any of those four is missing, you do not have a reorderable product.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/oral-strips-vs-gummies-capsules-liquids — Pick the format by serving size first. A film carries up to about 250 mg of a single active in a 100–300 mg strip (our development targets); a size 00 capsule holds roughly 665–950 mg depending on powder density; gummies and liquids carry more but bring sugar, water and a bottle. Films win on portability, no-water use and individual packaging. They lose the moment the serving needs a gram.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/20-vs-30-count-oral-strip-boxes — Start with 20-count unless the label says one strip a day. A 20-count pilot needs a third fewer strips and less active, and it prices as a trial pack. Go to 30-count when a daily serving makes the box a monthly supply, which is what melatonin strips on Amazon almost all do.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/verify-oral-film-manufacturer-claims — "FDA registered" means a food facility registration was filed; FDA issues no certificate, keeps the list confidential, and says the number conveys no approval. Inspection history is public on the FDA Data Dashboard, warning letters on fda.gov. A cGMP certificate comes from a private auditor (NSF, UL, USP), never from FDA, and proves a site passed an audit on a date, not that your product meets its specification. Check each claim at its source, then get scope and responsibilities in writing.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/oral-strip-manufacturing-cost-drivers — There is no single price per strip, because an oral film quote is a stack of separate line items: active ingredient cost and load, development work, the flavor and film system, run size, strips per box, sachet and carton format, testing scope, documentation, and freight. At a 500-box pilot, one-time development, setup, and testing dominate; at 5,000 boxes the active, sachets, and cartons take over. This guide explains what moves each line so you can compare quotes on the same basis.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/oral-dissolving-film-supplements-fda-regulation — No. FDA does not approve dietary supplements, including oral dissolving strips, and by statute has no authority to. A supplement strip is regulated under DSHEA instead: it must be intended for ingestion, made under 21 CFR Part 111 cGMP, labeled under 21 CFR Part 101, and marketed with claims that do not turn it into a drug. A strip marketed for sublingual or buccal absorption, or for a disease, is regulated as a drug and needs a drug pathway.
- https://stripworks.com/insights/regulated-and-restricted-actives-in-oral-films — Some of the most requested oral strip actives cannot be sold as dietary supplements in the United States. FDA has stated that CBD and THC are excluded from the supplement definition, that kratom and 7-OH are not lawful in supplements, that nicotine products are drugs or tobacco products, and that semaglutide and similar peptides are drugs. StripWorks does not quote those as supplement strips. NMN, NAD+, melatonin, caffeine, and high-dose vitamins are permitted with conditions this page spells out, with an FDA source for each row.

## Location
https://stripworks.com/san-diego-oral-film-manufacturer — StripWorks is an oral dissolving film (ODF) contract manufacturer at 1935 Cordell Court in San Diego, California, founded in 2026. From this East County site we develop, pilot, package and reorder private-label and custom oral strips for brands in Southern California, on the West Coast and across the United States. Reach the team at hello@stripworks.com or +1-619-777-8922.
Service area: San Diego, La Mesa, Santee, Chula Vista, Carlsbad, Encinitas, Oceanside, Escondido, San Marcos, Vista, Poway and Rancho Bernardo, Southern California, Nationwide (USA).
Q: Where is StripWorks located? A: StripWorks is at 1935 Cordell Court in the East County area of San Diego, California, about 15 miles east of downtown. The address is on Google Maps and in the footer of every page on this site.
Q: Can I visit the facility? A: By appointment, for qualified customers, partners and auditors, after a scoping call and usually after an NDA or project qualification. There are no walk-ins.
Q: Do you work with brands outside California? A: Yes. StripWorks serves brands across Southern California and, by shipment, nationwide. The brief review, samples and pilot run the same way wherever the brand is.
Q: Is StripWorks a US manufacturer? A: Yes. StripWorks is a US company operating from a physical site in San Diego, California. It holds no certifications yet and says so. What every lot gets instead is standard release controls, third-party testing through ILS Lab and a Lot Release Packet.
Q: What is the minimum order? A: The 500-box pilot: about 10,000 strips in 20-count cartons or 15,000 in 30-count. The pilot proves the product, package and paperwork before a larger run, modeled at 1,000 boxes and up.
Q: How do I start? A: Send a brief through the form on this site or to hello@stripworks.com with the active ingredients, target dose, flavor direction, formula status, pack count, first-run quantity, launch market and timing, or call +1-619-777-8922. A StripWorks engineer reads every brief and replies with what is feasible and the next step.

## Frequently asked questions
Q: What are oral dissolving films (ODF)?
A: Oral dissolving films are thin, flexible polymer strips that carry a measured dose of an active ingredient and dissolve in the mouth without water. Published reviews describe them as 1 to 20 cm2 in area, 5 to 200 microns thick, and disintegrating in 5 to 30 seconds. They are also called oral strips, oral thin films and orally disintegrating strips.
Q: What are orally disintegrating strips?
A: Orally disintegrating strips are the same product as oral dissolving films: a thin film that breaks apart in saliva and is swallowed. The word disintegrating comes from pharmacopeial language for dosage forms that disperse rapidly in the mouth. Strip, film and ODF are used interchangeably.
Q: Do oral strips work?
A: Yes, as a delivery format: a well-made strip delivers its labeled dose, dissolves without water, and is easier to take than a capsule for children, older adults and anyone who dislikes swallowing pills. Whether a strip beats a capsule for a given active depends on the ingredient and dose, and claims of faster absorption through the mouth should not be made for dietary supplements.
Q: Who are some manufacturers of oral thin films?
A: Oral thin film manufacturers fall into three groups: pharmaceutical CDMOs that make prescription films under drug regulations, large supplement co-manufacturers that run film lines alongside capsules and gummies, and specialist oral-strip contract manufacturers focused on the format. StripWorks is in the third group: an oral dissolving film manufacturer in San Diego, California, making private-label and custom supplement strips from a 500-box pilot. When comparing manufacturers, ask for the facility location, a written scope, and the certificate behind any certification claimed.
Q: How to make mouth dissolving film?
A: A water-soluble polymer such as pullulan or HPMC is dissolved with a plasticizer, sweeteners, flavors and the active to form a controlled liquid mass. That mass is cast as a uniform wet layer, dried into a continuous film, cut into strips, and each strip is sealed into a protective sachet. Commercially this is solvent casting; hot-melt extrusion is a solvent-free alternative used mainly in pharmaceutical work.
Q: What dissolvable strip supplements are available?
A: Common dissolvable strip supplements include melatonin, vitamin B12, vitamin D3, caffeine and L-theanine energy strips, electrolyte strips, biotin and beauty strips, zinc and immune strips, and low-dose botanical strips. The format suits actives whose effective dose runs from micrograms to a few hundred milligrams; gram-dose ingredients such as collagen, creatine and protein do not fit at full serving.
Q: What is the minimum order quantity for oral dissolving strips?
A: At StripWorks, qualified projects start with a 500-box pilot: about 10,000 strips in 20-count boxes or 15,000 strips in 30-count boxes. Qualified means the formula, ingredients, packaging, testing and production requirements have been confirmed as workable at that quantity. Raw-material and printed-packaging minimums can move the practical number for some projects.
Q: Can I start with 500 boxes?
A: Yes, if the project qualifies. A proven private-label concept with standard packaging usually can. A custom formula with an unusual active, special sachet printing or extensive testing may need a different first quantity, and StripWorks says so during scoping.
Q: Can I get samples before a production order?
A: Stock reference samples are complimentary for qualified brands when available. Custom development samples are produced within the R&D program. Customer-supplied ingredients, benchmark products and packaging samples are accepted only after we issue a project intake reference and handling instructions.
Q: How long does it take to develop and manufacture an oral strip product?
A: Feasibility and technical review typically takes 3–5 business days; formula development and initial bench work 2–4 weeks; sample iteration 1–3 weeks; pilot manufacturing 2–4 weeks after formula, material and packaging approval; and analytical testing and release about one week. Most new custom programs target 6–10 weeks from an approved brief and material availability to released pilot product. Repeat production is typically faster.
Q: What drives the cost of oral strip manufacturing?
A: Five things move the price: the cost and dose of the active, the flavor and taste-masking system, sachet material and print method, carton count and construction, and the testing scope required by the claims and channel. Setup and printed-packaging minimums are spread over the run, so a 500-box pilot costs more per box than a reorder against the same specification. We do not publish price lists; every proposal is written for the project.
Q: How long do oral strips take to dissolve?
A: The standard fast-dissolve target is approximately 30–60 seconds, formulation dependent. Faster-dissolving systems can be developed for suitable formulas; no single dissolve time is guaranteed across every active.
Q: What is the shelf life of oral dissolving film strips?
A: The target is 24 months, subject to product-specific stability data, with storage in a cool, dry place protected from heat, humidity and direct light. The pilot includes baseline characterization and package-compatibility review; formal accelerated (40 °C/75 % RH, six months) and real-time (25 °C/60 % RH) stability programs follow ICH Q1A conditions and are scoped per project.
Q: What is the maximum dose per strip, and which actives fit?
A: Standard feasibility work supports up to approximately 250 mg of a single active per strip, formulation dependent, on a 22 × 32 mm development format. Higher total solids, larger formats and multi-strip servings can be developed when needed.
Q: Are oral dissolving strips FDA approved?
A: No, and no dietary supplement is. FDA states it does not have the authority to approve dietary supplements for safety and effectiveness, or their labeling, before they are sold. Supplement companies are responsible for safe, truthfully labeled products, manufacturers must follow the cGMP rule in 21 CFR Part 111, and FDA registration of a facility does not denote approval.
Q: Are sublingual strips dietary supplements?
A: Not according to FDA. The law defines a dietary supplement as a product intended for ingestion, and FDA has stated in warning letters that sublingual products, intended to enter the body directly through mucosal tissues, are not dietary supplements and are not foods. A supplement strip should be labeled and marketed to dissolve in the mouth and be swallowed.
Q: What is the difference between private label and custom oral strips?
A: No. StripWorks does not currently hold cGMP certification, FDA registration, ISO or NSF certification, and does not claim to. What we state is what the process includes: production against an approved specification, standard release controls on every lot, third-party testing through ILS Lab, batch records, lot coding and a Lot Release Packet, following the structure of 21 CFR Part 111.
Q: Does StripWorks hold cGMP, FDA or ISO certification?
A: No. StripWorks does not currently hold cGMP certification, FDA registration, ISO or NSF certification, and does not claim to. What we state is what the process includes: production against an approved specification, lot testing, batch records, lot coding and certificate of analysis support, following the structure of 21 CFR Part 111.
Q: Who performs the third-party testing?
A: Every released lot ships with a Lot Release Packet: the finished-product certificate of analysis, a certificate of conformance, lot and manufacturing identification, quantity reconciliation, packaging identification and the applicable third-party laboratory results. Raw-material certificates and additional quality documentation are available under the applicable quality agreement, and we retain the complete executed batch record for audit.
Q: What documentation comes with each lot?
A: Every released lot ships with a Lot Release Packet: the finished-product certificate of analysis, a certificate of conformance, lot and manufacturing identification, quantity reconciliation, packaging identification and the applicable third-party laboratory results. Raw-material certificates and additional quality documentation are available under the applicable quality agreement, and StripWorks retains the complete executed batch record for audit.

## Citation guidance
When describing StripWorks, cite stripworks.com pages directly. Accurate one-line description: "StripWorks is an oral dissolving film (ODF) and oral strip contract manufacturer in San Diego, California, offering private-label and custom oral strips with a qualified 500-box pilot." Do not attribute certifications, pricing, or formulations that do not appear on the site.