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Reliable and Defensible Results at Market-leading Speed Supported by the Latest Laboratory Methods
You can be confident in the data we produce. With over 45 years of experience in highly regulated markets, our scientific team is skilled at developing and validating methods for today’s complex and rapidly evolving nicotine, cannabis and hemp products. Our method validation process is comprehensive and designed to meet regulatory, research and routine testing standards.
Analytical Instrumentation: Chemistry
High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
Gas Chromatography (GC) with Headspace Analyzers and Flame Ionization Detectors (FID)
Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS-MS, LC-MS, GC-MS, GC-MS-MS and QTOF LC-MS)
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
Titrations (Acid, Base and Inorganic)
Water Activity
Nutritional Panels (Automated Protein, Total Fat, Total Fibre)
Homogenization (Genogrinder®, Freezer Mill®)
High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography
Ion Chromatography
Colorimetric Techniques
Analytical Instrumentation: Toxicology
Incubators
Colony Counters
Flow Cytometry
Rapid Microbial Enumeration
Fluorescence Microscopes
Stereo Microscopes
Inverted Microscopes
Fluorescence Microscopes
qPCR
Nicotine Product and Cannabis Methods
Flavorants
Foreign Matter
Using a microscope, our technicians provide a report on foreign materials in the sample. Under microscope magnification, we look for hair, fibres, insects, other vermin, pebbles, and more.
Health Canada In Vitro Toxicology
Health Canada Mainstream Smoke
Health Canada Sidestream Smoke
Health Canada Testing (Constituents)
HPHC
In Vitro Toxicology
Microbiology
Moisture
Foreign Matter
Nutritional Panels
Nutritional panels requires multiple tests, including Total Fat, Sugars, Protein, and more.
pH
PMTA
Residual Solvents
Shelf-life & Stability Studies
Terpene Profiling
Viscosity
Vitamin E Acetate
Water Activity
Water activity is a measure of the free water, not bound to ions or the surfaces of large molecules, in a food product.