--- title: "Powder and sachet supplement manufacturing, managed" description: "Powder supplement manufacturing, managed: probiotic, greens, protein, collagen, creatine and electrolyte powders in tubs, pouches, stick packs and sachets." url: https://takefridayoff.com/formats/powders-sachets updated: 2026-10-28 --- # Powder and sachet supplements, from formula to delivery https://takefridayoff.com/formats/powders-sachets · Format · last reviewed 2026-10-19 We develop powders as listed medicines or foods and manage their manufacture through cGMP partners, from the first formula to delivery at your warehouse. ## What we build in powders (https://takefridayoff.com/formats/powders-sachets#what-we-build-in-powders) Large serves and flexible packs: tubs, pouches, stick packs and single-serve sachets. Popular for gut health and probiotic powders, greens, electrolytes, collagen, protein, creatine, and pre- and intra-workout. Choose a powder when the serve is too big for a capsule, or you want sampling and trial packs. From our records: a probiotic powder with a prebiotic and electrolytes, an immune powder and a performance powder, in packs including a 14-day pouch and a brand's own pouch. For drops, tinctures, shots, syrups and oral sprays, see [liquids](https://takefridayoff.com/formats/liquids). ## A tub, a pouch or sachets? (https://takefridayoff.com/formats/powders-sachets#a-tub-a-pouch-or-sachets) Packaging has minimums of its own. Each pack format has a minimum from the packaging supplier, and single-serve sachets typically need around 150,000 sachets, so a tub or pouch is usually the better format to launch with. Stick packs and sachets come into their own for sampling and trial packs. More on what a first run costs in our [development cost guide](https://takefridayoff.com/guides/supplement-development-cost), and on packs in [packaging and labelling](https://takefridayoff.com/packaging). ## Medicine or food? (https://takefridayoff.com/formats/powders-sachets#medicine-or-food) A powder can be a listed medicine or a food, and the difference decides the ingredients, the claims and the label. The Belly Solution's travel gut-health powder is a TGA-listed medicine; a sports brand's performance powder went to market on the food pathway; Ora's range spans TGA-listed medicines and premium functional foods. We settle the pathway at the brief, before the formula. See [medicine, food or cosmetic?](https://takefridayoff.com/pathways). Protein and pre-workout powders made for sport are usually built as foods ([sports supplements](https://takefridayoff.com/guides/sports-supplement-development)). Sports powders have their own food standard, Standard 2.9.4 for formulated supplementary sports foods. It sets the label statements and, since 9 June 2026, caps caffeine at 200 mg in the amount for one day, as directed on the label, and below 5% of a powder, with a transition period to 9 June 2028. But a sports supplement presented for a therapeutic use, or likely to be taken as being for one, is declared a medicine if it contains, or is said to contain, a substance in the Poisons Standard, an added substance on the 2023 World Anti-Doping Prohibited List, added dendrobium or methylliberine, or something with the same pharmacological action, or if it is sold as a tablet, capsule or pill (since 30 November 2023, unless it contains only glucose). And whatever its presentation, a powder that contains, or is promoted to contain, isolated HMB or its salts is declared a medicine, as is a shark cartilage powder unless it is a wholesale product for use as a food ingredient. More on [the food pathway](https://takefridayoff.com/pathways/foods). ## Examples from our records (https://takefridayoff.com/formats/powders-sachets#examples-from-our-records) - [The Belly Solution](https://takefridayoff.com/work/the-belly-solution-travel-gut-health-powder): a travel gut-health powder combining the clinically studied probiotic yeast *Saccharomyces boulardii*, a prebiotic and electrolytes, in a 14-day pouch. A TGA-listed medicine with a 36-month stability program, then a national pharmacy distribution trial with more than 30 new stockists in its first week. More in our [probiotics guide](https://takefridayoff.com/guides/probiotic-supplement-development). - [Nivari](https://takefridayoff.com/work/nivari-powder-supplement): a founder's first product, a powder supplement taken from idea to launch-ready and packed into the brand's own pouch for a mid-August 2026 launch. - [A sports brand's core range](https://takefridayoff.com/work/sports-brand-core-range): four capsules reformulated from scratch, plus a food-pathway performance powder. - [BWellness](https://takefridayoff.com/work/bwellness-practitioner-range): an immune powder built on Wellmune®, one of nine products for the same practitioner brand. The immune claims a product like this can make are in our [immune supplements guide](https://takefridayoff.com/guides/immune-supplement-development). ## Frequently asked questions **Can you make a protein powder?** Yes. Protein is one of the powders we make, with collagen, creatine, greens, electrolytes, and pre- and intra-workout. A protein powder made for sport is usually a food, and Standard 2.9.4 sets its label statements; we settle the pathway at the brief. **Can you pack powders into our own pouch?** Yes. Nivari's powder was packed into the brand's own pouch, and we have delivered The Belly Solution's powder in a 14-day pouch. More on packaging. **Can a powder be a TGA-listed medicine?** Yes. The Belly Solution's travel gut-health powder is a TGA-listed medicine: we designed the formula, built the claims evidence, secured the TGA listing, drafted and reviewed the label, designed the stability protocol and set up a 36-month stability program. **Do you manage manufacturing across borders?** Yes. For BWellness we manage every production run, including the imported ingredients, customs and freight. **How do I know which pathway my powder belongs on?** It depends on the ingredients, the doses, the claims you want to make and how the product is presented. We settle it in the brief; medicine, food or cosmetic? sets out how the decision works. ## Case studies - [The Belly Solution: From a first product to a national pharmacy rollout](https://takefridayoff.com/work/the-belly-solution-travel-gut-health-powder): About eight months from formulation to dispatch - [Nivari: A founder's first product, launch-ready](https://takefridayoff.com/work/nivari-powder-supplement): Produced and delivered for a mid-August 2026 launch. - [ATP Science: Rebuilding a sports brand's core range](https://takefridayoff.com/work/sports-brand-core-range): Five products in production from late 2023 - [Ora: Practitioner-recommended natural medicine, formulated from clinical evidence](https://takefridayoff.com/work/ora-practitioner-natural-medicine): A brand in practitioner clinics and premium retailers across Australia and New Zealand, a member of 1% for the Planet, and expanding into new markets. - [BWellness: Nine products and a long partnership](https://takefridayoff.com/work/bwellness-practitioner-range): Five production batches from 2021 to 2025 ## Sources General information, checked against these sources on 19 October 2026. It isn't advice on a particular product. - [Standard 2.9.4: Formulated supplementary sports foods](https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2015L00421/latest/text), Federal Register of Legislation - [Sports foods](https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/consumer/nutrition/sportfood), Food Standards Australia New Zealand - [Therapeutic Goods (Declared Goods) Order 2019](https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2019L01352/latest/text), Federal Register of Legislation