TESTING CAPABILITIES

Prime Analytical Laboratories, LLC (PAL) provides analytical chemistry and microbiology lab specialized in testing cosmetics, dietary supplements, herbal products, wine samples, water samples, pharmaceuticals, biologicals and food samples, and tea products. If you are in need for R&D testing or method development and validation, we provide the same level of quality documentation as regular samples. Rush services are available upon request to accommodate our clients’ needs. If you need to contact us for a quote or to schedule a pickup, we would be happy to help.

PAL has extensive capabilities to perform the testing outlined in the testing services list.  Equipment such as Shimadzu LC/MS, Agilent GC/FID/MSD, Nicolet FTIR, Agilent HPLC’s, Thermo ICP-MS, Mettler moisture analyzer, water activity analyzer.  All equipment is qualified per USP and FDA GMP requirements.

ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

  • SP <197> Spectrophotometric Identification test
  • USP <201> Thin-Layer Chromatographic Identification test
  • USP <206> Aluminum
  • USP <Arsenic>
  • USP alcohol content and impurities
  • <216> Calcium, Potassium, and Sodium
  • <221> Chloride and Sulfate
  • <232> Elemental Impurities – Limits
  • <233> Elemental impurities – Procedures
  • <621> Chromatography – GC-MS, TLC and HPLC
  • <645> Water Conductivity
  • <731> Loss on Drying
  • <791> pH
  • Container closure dye leak test
  • <922> Water activity
  • <921) Moisture analysis, methods I & III
  • Custom assays
  • Analytical method development and validation
  • Peptide product testing: purity, net paptide content, molecular weight

Serving San Francisco

MICROBIOLOGY TESTING

  • AOAC disinfectant efficacy studies
  • BAM microbial testing of cosmetics
  • BAM microbial testing of foods
  • Coliform testing of water samples
  • Container closure microbial immersion test
  • Environmental monitoring processing of swabs, contact plates and air samples for screening of pathogens and fungi.
  • USP <55> Biological Indicators – spore count and sterility testing
  • USP <61> Microbial count for bacteria, yeast & mold
  • USP <62> Absence of specified microorganisms in non-sterile products
  • USP <71> Sterility testing
  • USP <85> Bacterial Endotoxin test
  • USP <1231> Microbial bioburden testing
  • USP <2021> Microbial Enumeration test for nutritional products
  • USP <2022> Absence of Specified Microorganisms for nutritional products
  • USP <2021> and/or <2022> preparatory test is used to establish the method, which in the presence of the product, allows the detection of the microorganism (s).
  • USP <51> Antimicrobial effectiveness testing custom microbiology product testing.
  • Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)
  • Minimum bactericidal Concentration (MBC)
  • UV antimicrobial efficacy studies
  • Pathogen screening: Salmonella, E coli, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium perfringens, Listeria spp., Listeria monocytogenes, Shigella spp., Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus enterotoxin, Cronobacter sakazakii and custom organisms