Vital cog in wellness

From an East Rand facility, feisty woman’s firm produces 80 000 capsules and tablets a month.

- Hein Kaiser

Eare made? ver curious about how those vitamins and supplements lining the shelves of your favourite health store Andrea Prytz is the person behind many capsules and tablets that deliver health and wellness by the dose.

From her East Rand facility called SA Capsule Filling, she cranks out more than 80 000 capsules and tablets a month.

But supplementary health was not always Prytz's vocation. She's got two jobs.

Originally trained as an accountant, her sortie into capsule filling and complementary medicine began through a personal connection.

"For 10 years before I started doing finance, I worked for my father," she said.

Her dad imported the encapsulations that pharmaceutical companies then filled with medicine, but challenging times presented themselves when big pharma cut out local production and started importing filled products instead.