GAAS Analytical

Overview

GAAS Analytical is an independent contract testing laboratory of natural products, botanical drugs, phytochemicals and dietary supplements, including raw materials, intermediates and finished products. We are providing high quality analytical services, including routine testing, consulting, analytical method development & validation and contract research & development, to medium and small businesses and educational institutes. GAAS Analytical offers analytical testing according to cGMP regulations for identity and purity using mainly HPLC instrumentation.

Our standard analytical reports include not only the end results, but also supporting documents, such as the analytical method(s) used, calibration curves, actual chromatograms and relevant statistics.The FDA cGMP regulation of dietary supplements requires companies to prove hat the analytical methods they use are scientifically valid - our report satisfies this requirement. To ensure that our methods are "fit for purpose", GAAS Analytical regularly participates in the Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) exercises.

The founder and CEO of GAAS Analytical has substantial experience in this field; before founding GAAS Analytical she served as the director of the Analytical Core at an NIH funded Botanical Center (Arizona Center for Phytomedicine Research), and managed similar analytical laboratories of industry. Currently she is voting member of the AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements (SPDS), member of the Expert Review Panel (ERP), Chair of the Turmeric Working Group, and member of several other Working Groups. She was selected in 2015 to serve a 5 year term as the member of the USP's Non-botanical Dietary Supplements Expert Committee. She is also serving on the Advisory Board of the NIST/NIH established Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP).

Standards & Methodologies

If they exist, we use regulatory and widely accepted industry methods (USP, AOAC, INA, Food Chemicals Codex, Japanese Pharmacopoeia, British Pharmacopoeia, ICH, INA), otherwise we use our in-house developed analytical methods. We can also use your specific method or develop and validate an analytical method for you

Qualifications, Certifications, Accreditations & Licenses

GAAS Analytical is registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). We operate in compliance with the Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) and we are regularly participating in the Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) exercises.