Xiamen Shixin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Xiamen Shixin Pharmaceutical makes functional red yeast rice, the Monascus-fermented rice sold for its monacolin content rather than only as a colour. It ferments with its own Monascus purpureus strain and has worked on functional red qu for more than twenty years. Alongside the bulk ingredient it makes finished dietary supplements and takes contract manufacturing work.

The company is at Xiamen in Fujian, the province with the longest continuous tradition of red qu production, and its red qu process is registered as an intangible cultural heritage craft with a named holder of the technique. Its consumer products are sold as dietary supplements and not as medicines.