Marvel in GMP and EU-GMP facilities

The page to forward to your quality team. What's certified, what's validated, what's documented, and what to ask us for.

The short version: Marvel operates today inside GMP-certified facilities and is validated within GMP quality systems, with full validation documentation available to your quality team. Every flower is imaged and scored at grading, every record is timestamped and retrievable, and sampled images sync to the cloud for verification - the documentation GMP auditors ask for, generated automatically as the line runs.

Certified and operating

Every Marvel is CSA-certified at build - each unit individually inspected - and Marvel runs today in GMP-certified facilities. It has been validated within customer GMP quality systems, and the validation documentation package - URS, IQ, OQ, and PQ - is available to your QA team on request.

The audit trail is the product

GMP documentation is usually the tax you pay after the work. With Marvel it's a by-product of the work itself: the Marvel Portal logs every grade call and every lot report, with sampled images synced for verification - total flowers processed, size distributions, class breakdowns per graded characteristic, output percentages - timestamped, per batch, retrievable months later. When an auditor asks how a lot was dispositioned and on what evidence, the answer is a report, not a recollection.

Why machine grading fits GMP thinking

Visual QC by people is the least validatable step in post-harvest: subjective, unrepeatable, and drifting across a shift - in our own measured head-to-head, an experienced manual QC pair graded at 76.7% accuracy. Marvel grades against parameterized, versioned criteria that produce the same call on the same flower every time, which is what a quality system can actually validate. And we stay honest about the boundary: Marvel is the tireless first screen, with your people on final judgment - a division of labor auditors tend to like, because both halves are inspectable.

Machine and materials

Product-contact surfaces are 304 stainless steel - the infeed conveyor and exit chutes - with 40A durometer EPDM chute drapes. Cleaning is a 10-to-20-minute wipe-down: compressed air, clean towels, isopropyl. No moving parts in the grading path means minimal maintenance and fewer harborage points. Cleaning SOPs and material certifications are available to your QA team.

EU-GMP

Marvel supports operations exporting under EU-GMP; ask us about current EU-GMP deployments on a call.

What to ask us for

Three requests your QA team should make before anyone signs anything: the validation documentation package, a sample Portal lot report, and the measurement protocol this site publishes. A vendor who hesitates on any of the three is telling you something. Data governance questions - ownership, residency, access - are answered plainly in the Marvel data policy.