In addition to our routine service offerings, we specialize in customized analyses for custom projects, product complaints, compliance, and legal or insurance purposes. Our capabilities can be tailored to meet the specific needs of our clients.

Our laboratories lead the industry in identifying foreign materials, contaminants, off odor problems and solving challenges in the food, beverage, dietary supplement, OTC and ingredient sectors.

Whether it is trying to figure out “What is this?” or "What’s that smell?", we can help with product failures, their causes, and potential solutions.

When the main component of the material is not clear, questions about its suitability or function cannot be addressed.

We can help

With our extensive resources, instruments, equipment, proprietary techniques, experience & know how from thousands of successful investigations, and our state of the art technologies including but not limited to SEM-EDX, FTIR, NMR, ICP-MS, GC-MS, LC-MS, we can solve the most challenging problems quickly.

We also perform high level comparative analyses using our spectral libraries with over 250,000 FTIR and RAMAN spectra for matches and over 300,000 GC-MS spectra for matches including NIST library, comprehensive Wiley flavors and fragrance library.

Let us find your solution

• Contamination studies
• Foreign or unknown material characterization and identification
• Off-flavor, off-odor analysis
• Product failure investigation and root cause analysis
• Wine, spirit, and beverage failure analysis
• Particle identification and characterization
• Product recall support and crisis management
• Legal projects, litigation support, insurance claim support, and expert witness services
• Microbiological spoilage investigation and root cause analysis

We offer packaging testing, compliance with US FDA/CFR and EU PACKAGING GUIDANCE and expert advice for each stage of your product cycle.

Having worked with most major brands in the food industry, we have amassed a wide scope of services related to packaging.

Whether you are looking for regulatory compliance and do not know where to start or require chemical testing to ensure your product is safe, we have you covered.

Our services include:

• Extractable and leachable testing
• Food contact testing, including global regulatory compliance
• Packaging failure investigation
• Legal projects, litigation support, insurance claim support, expert witness services

For our clients working in regulated environments, including GMP and GLP regulation, we develop and validate analytical methods. Our team of experts can collaborate with your team to create custom methods whatever the situation.

In most cases, these methods will require validation to be compliant with applicable Quality System Regulations (QSRs), relevant ISO standards, and Good Laboratory Practices (GLP).

Our team will ensure that our methods of analysis are compliant with all standards that apply and can execute a comprehensive validation based on these standards and internationally accepted validation guidance documents, such as the ICH Harmonized Tripartite Guideline, Validation of Analytical Procedures.

Hourly or firm bid consultation rates can be quickly provided once we discuss your challenges and requirements.

We can test to all major compendia including USP, FCC, NF, EP, BP, JP, JECFA, etc.

How we support you:

• Method development, method optimization and method feasibility, method validation, method transfer)
• De-formulation (reverse engineering)
• Unknown chromatographic peak and impurity identification
• GLP and cGMP studies and validations
• Consulting services and training
• Active ingredients in OTCs, hand sanitizers
• Legal projects, litigation support, insurance claim support, expert witness services

• Gas Chromatography (GC) with FID, TCD detection. 
• Gas Chromatography with Mass Selective Detection (GCMS), GC-MSMS, including liquid injection, Solid Phase Micro-Extraction (SPME), Headspace, Dynamic Headspace (ITEX) 
• High, Ultrahigh Liquid Chromatography (HPLC/UPLC) including DAD/UV, RI, ELSD, fluorescence detection. 
• Liquid chromatography with MS, MSMS detection 
• High Resolution LCMS (Orbitrap) 
• Ion chromatography with conductivity detection 

• Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) Analysis, including micro-FTIR microscopy
• Raman spectroscopy, including micro–Raman microscopy 
• Ultraviolet-Visible (UV-Vis) spectrophotometry 
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

• Keyence high resolution digital microscopy
• Scanning Electron Microscopy (EDX Detection)
• Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM)
• Phase Contrast Microscopy (PCM)

• Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) with mass spectrometry Detection (ICPMS)
• ICP with Optical Emission Spectrometry Detection ICP-OES testing
• Flame atomic absorption
• EDX (Energy Dispersive X-ray)
• LIBs (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy)
• XRD (X-ray Diffraction)

• DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry)
• TGA (Thermal Gravimetric Analysis) 
• Karl Fischer Analysis (Volumetric and Coulometric) 
• Acid/base, redox, precipitation, and surfactant titrations 

• Refractometer 
• Densitometer 
• Brookfield Viscometer and Rheometer 
• Nephelometer (Turbidity) 
• Polarimeter  
• Karl Fischer (Volumetric & Coulometric)  
• Flashpoint (small scale closed cup) 
• Plate Readers (for Immunoassays) 
• Ion Selective Electrode 
• Autotitraters 
• Particle Size by Laser Diffraction 
• Particle Size by Rotap Sieve