When a material changes, contamination appears, or a product fails unexpectedly, organizations need answers quickly. Manufacturing disruptions, quality concerns, customer complaints, and development delays often begin with a chemistry question that has yet to be answered.

Eurofins Medical Device Services supports organizations in understanding the composition, structure, and performance of materials, products, and processes through advanced analytical chemistry and materials characterization services. Our scientists combine specialized instrumentation with decades of experience to identify unknowns, determine root causes, and provide actionable insights that support better business decisions.

Whether you're identifying a contaminant, evaluating a competitor's product, troubleshooting a manufacturing issue, or supporting product development, our chemistry services uncover the information needed to move forward with confidence.

Our chemistry services equip organizations to:

• Evaluate competitor products
• Identify unknown materials and contaminants
• Improve product reliability and performance
• Investigate manufacturing and quality issues
• Protect intellectual property
• Support product development and formulation improvements

Chemistry Services

Material Identification and Compositional Analysis

Understanding what a material contains is often the first step toward solving a technical challenge. Our scientists identify and characterize materials to support product development, quality investigations, competitive benchmarking, and supplier qualification.

Capabilities include:

• Compositional analysis
• Material authentication
• Material identification
• Product comparison studies
• Raw material verification
• Supplier qualification

Deformulation and Reverse Engineering

Our deformulation and reverse engineering studies identify ingredients, additives, and key formulation components to support competitive analysis, product development, manufacturing investigations, and benchmarking activities.

Capabilities include:

• Additive characterization
• Competitive product evaluations
• Component identification
• Formulation comparisons
• Ingredient quantification

Contaminant Identification and Failure Analysis

Unexpected contamination and product failures can affect quality, productivity, and customer confidence. Our multidisciplinary teams identify contaminants, investigate root causes, and determine failure mechanisms to support effective corrective actions.

Capabilities include:

• Contaminant identification
• Manufacturing investigations
• Process contamination studies
• Product failure analysis
• Root-cause investigations

Polymer Analysis and Particle Characterization

Polymers and particulate matter often require specialized analytical expertise to evaluate composition, performance, and variability.

Capabilities include:

• Additive identification
• Comparative lot analysis
• Degradation studies
• Molecular weight analysis
• Particle identification
• Polymer characterization
• USP <788> testing

Surface Analysis and Product Performance Testing

Surface chemistry can significantly impact adhesion, coating performance, bonding strength, durability, and product quality. Our surface analysis capabilities allow organizations to understand how materials interact and why performance issues occur.

Applications include:

• Adhesion investigations
• Bonding failures
• Coating evaluations
• Material interaction investigations
• Morphology analysis
• Surface contamination studies

These insights allow organizations to improve product quality and accelerate problem resolution.

Reliability Testing and Product Performance Evaluation

Understanding how products perform over time is essential for reducing risk, improving durability, and supporting successful product development. Our testing services allow organizations to evaluate how materials and products respond to environmental, mechanical, and real-world stresses throughout their lifecycle.

Services include:

• Climate exposure studies
• Custom synthesis
• Design validation support
• Environmental testing
• HALT testing
• Impact testing
• Product performance investigations

Advanced Analytical Capabilities

Our laboratories utilize advanced analytical technologies including FTIR, LC-MS, GC-MS, HPLC, NMR, Raman, ICP-MS/OES, XPS, SEM-EDS, XRD, AFM, MALDI, and thermal analysis techniques to identify, characterize, quantify, and compare materials across a broad range of applications

Ready to Solve Your Next Analytical Challenge?

Whether you're investigating a product failure, identifying a contaminant, evaluating a material change, or supporting product development, our chemistry experts develop an analytical strategy tailored to your technical and business objectives.

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