Laboratory

Gemini Pharma gets flexible ISO 17025 accreditation for lab testing

27-Jul-2023

New York-based Gemini Pharmaceuticals has achieved a Flexible Scope of accreditation to ISO 17025 – heralded as a world class accreditation for testing laboratories.

Canyon Labs joins DS testing field with new 17,000 sq. ft. laboratory

14-Mar-2022 By Stephen Daniells

Salt Lake City-based Canyon Labs has announced it is open for business with its ISO 17025 accredited laboratory providing testing facilities for dietary supplements and nutraceuticals.

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Alkemist Labs adds heavy metals and pesticides to testing suite

01-Mar-2022

California-based Alkemist Labs has renewed its ISO accreditation and expanded its suite of testing services to include heavy metals and pesticides.

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Gemini Pharmaceuticals’ quality laboratory achieves ISO 17025 accreditation

06-Aug-2020 By Stephen Daniells

New York-based Gemini Pharmaceuticals has achieved International Standard ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation for Testing Laboratory from ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) for its in-house analytical laboratory.

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Alkemist Labs again achieves ISO 17025:2017 accreditation, adds CBD & terpenes methods

11-Jun-2020 By Stephen Daniells

California-based Alkemist Labs has again achieved accreditation to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017, but this time the accreditation includes the lab’s internally developed cannabinoids and terpenes assays.

New technology and new players push labs to demystify testing: Alkemist Labs CEO

23-Mar-2017 By Stephen Daniells

Keeping up to date with technological advances, understanding which testing methods are suitable for botanical materials and finished products, and how reference standards fit into the picture are just some of the key issues that brands should be aware...

Ingredient Identity to grow expertise via regulatory/testing deal with Florida lab

04-Sep-2015 By Hank Schultz

Consulting firm Ingredient Identity says its latest client will help it fine tune its regulatory expertise via a partnership involving both consulting and laboratory work. The client, Daane Laboratories, is already in something of a consulting mode in...

Idle investment capital driving consolidation in testing arena, exec says

18-Nov-2014 By Hank Schultz

The need to get higher returns on investment capital that has lain idle is driving the ongoing consolidation in the sphere of analytical testing according to Dave Kliber, CEO of SF Analytical Laboratories, which was recently acquired by multinational...

LIMS slowly displacing paper records in labs

25-Sep-2012 By Hank Schultz

Electronic record keeping is slowly making inroads into the analytical chemistry side of the dietary supplement business. But for many lab techs, it’s still a pencil and paper world.

UAS Labs to triple probiotic manufacturing capacity as demand soars

23-Jul-2012

UAS Laboratories has announced it will more than triple its current capacity for probiotics at its plant in Wausau, WI, as the US, European, and Asian markets drive an increase in demand.

Expert: ‘Most of us know which labs are dry labs, or at least horrifically incompetent’

22-Mar-2012 By Stephen Daniells

The analytical community knows which companies are involved in dry labbing, says a leading analytical expert, and the practices of a minority of labs are harming the whole industry.