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Overview

Vanguard Laboratory is ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Accredited environmental & quality assurance laboratory located in Olympia, Washington. Vanguard Laboratory is dedicated to practicing and providing the highest quality laboratory testing, and can provide a wide array of quality assurance testing and analytical services to cater to your needs.

ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation standards are the most widely used and respected standard for testing laboratories, confirming that the certified laboratory can produce precise and accurate results. Vanguard Laboratories is ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited through A2LA. 

Available Testing Services

Vanguard Laboratory is proud to offer a wide array of laboratory services, as well as numerous auxiliary services that can be useful for companies in all industries. Currently, we offer the following laboratory tests and services with additional laboratory tests available on request.
Vanguard Laboratory offers both GMP and ISO compliant services for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of raw materials, In-Process Materials and Finished Products. Our laboratory also offers stability studies and process authority letters to help get your  finished products to market. 


  • Peptide Purity
  • <1225> Validation of Compendial Procedures
  • <1226> Verification of Compendial procedures
  • <621> Chromatography ? HPLC, GC
  • <341> Antimicrobial Agents Content
    • Benzyl Alcohol
    • Chlorobutanol
    • Phenol
    • Methylparaben and Propylparaben
  • <611> Alcohol Determination
  • <197> Spectrophotometric Identification Tests
  • <921> Water Determination
  • <831> Refractive Index
  • <841> Specific Gravity
  • <911> Viscosity

  • <466> Ordinary Impurities
  • <741> Melting Range or Temperature
  • <781> Optical Rotation
  • <191> Identification Tests ? General
  • <401> Fats and Fixed Oils
    • Specific Gravity
    • Melting Temperature
    • Acid Value
    • Ester Value
    • Hydroxyl Value
    • Iodine Value
    • Peroxide Value
    • Saponification Value
    • Fatty Acid Composition
  • <206> Aluminum
  • <211> Arsenic
  • <216> Calcium, Potassium, and Sodium
  • <221> Chloride and Sulfate
  • <231> Heavy Metals
  • <232><233> Elemental Impurities
  • <251> Lead
  • <261> Mercury
  • <291> Selenium
  • <591> Zinc
  • <467> Residual Solvents

Standards & Methodologies

HPLC
HPLC-MSMS
HPLC-DAD
GC-FID
GC-MS
GC-ECD
ICP-MS
AAS
NMR
NIR
Wet Bench Chemistry
RT-PCR
TLC

AOAC
USP
BP

Qualifications, Certifications, Accreditations & Licenses

Vanguard Laboratories is ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited through A2LA, Certificate Number 6377.01.
Washington Department of Health
Washington Department of Ecology
FDA Registered

Industries Served

  • Aerosols
  • Agriculture
  • Agrochemicals or Agrichemicals
  • Alcoholic Beverages
  • Alcohols
  • Algae and Microalgae
  • Alternative Medicine
  • Ammunition
  • Animal Feed
  • Animal Health
  • Animals - Dairy
  • Animals - Equine
  • Ant, Fly & Mosquito Control
  • Antfiungals
  • Anti-Bacterials
  • Anti-Bacterials
  • Anti-Microbials
  • Antibiotics
  • Antigens and Antibodies
  • Antivirals
  • Aquariums
  • Aromatic Volatiles
  • Aromatics
  • Baby Wipes
  • Beauty Care
  • Beverages
  • Beverages - Juices
  • Beverages - Soda and Carbonated
  • Beverages - Sports Drinks
  • Bioactives
  • Biochemicals
  • Biocidial Products
  • Biofilms
  • Biofuels
  • Biopharmaceuticals
  • Biosafety Products
  • Botanicals and Herbals
  • Botany and Horticulture
  • Candles and Wax
  • Candy and Confectionaries
  • Cannabinoid Product - Food
  • Cannabinoid Product - Pet Food
  • Cannabinoid Product- Cosmetics
  • Cannabis Concentrates
  • Cannabis Edibles
  • Cannabis Hardware
  • Cannabis Oral Products
  • Cannabis Topicals
  • Cannabis Transdermals
  • Cannabis Vape Products
  • Cannabis, Cannabinoids, and CBD
  • Canned Food
  • CBD Oil
  • Cereals
  • Cereals, Grains and Rice
  • Cheeses
  • Chemicals
  • Chocolate, Cocoa, and Cacao
  • Cigars and Cigarettes
  • Cleaning Products
  • Cleaning Products - Household
  • Cleaning Products - Industrial
  • Cleaning Products - Soaps
  • Coatings - Medical
  • Coatings - Sealers
  • Coatings and Finishings
  • Coffee and Tea
  • Coke
  • Compost
  • Compressor Oils
  • Consumer Packaged Goods ( CPG )
  • Consumer Products
  • Coolants
  • Coolants
  • Corrosives
  • Cosmeceutical
  • Cosmetics
  • Culture Media
  • Dangerous Goods
  • Deicing / Anti-icing
  • Dentistry and Dental Products
  • Deodorizers and Odor Removers
  • Desiccants
  • Desserts
  • Detergents
  • Diapers and Incontinence Products
  • Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals
  • Dips, Dressings and Sauces
  • Disinfectants
  • Drinking Water
  • Eggs and Egg Products
  • Enamels
  • Endocrine Disruptors
  • Endocrines and Hormones
  • Energy Drinks and Bars
  • Environmental
  • Essential Oils
  • Ethanol
  • Explosives
  • Fats, Oil, and Oilseeds
  • Fish and Seafood
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture
  • Flowers, Buds and Blooms
  • Food Additives
  • Food and Beverage
  • Food Contact Surfaces
  • Food Decorative Products
  • Food Grade Lubricants
  • Food Ingredients
  • Food Supplements
  • Freshwater Fish
  • Frozen Food
  • Fruit Trees
  • Fruits and Vegetables
  • Gasoline
  • Haircare
  • Hand Sanitizers and Soaps
  • Hazardous Substances
  • Hazardous Waste
  • Heavy Fuel Oils
  • Hemp
  • Hemp - Pre-Harvest
  • Herbs and Spices
  • Hygiene, Personal Care, and Toiletries
  • Ice Melt
  • Incense Products
  • Industrial Hygiene
  • Industrial Lubricants
  • Industrial Oils
  • Industrial Oils
  • Industrial Water
  • Infant and Baby Food
  • Infant Formula
  • Invertebrates
  • Kratom
  • Lithium
  • Marijuana, Hemp, and Cannabis
  • Meats and Poultry
  • Metallic Powders
  • Metals
  • Metals - Aluminum
  • Metals - Bronze
  • Metals - Carbon Steel
  • Metals - Cobalt
  • Metals - Copper
  • Metals - Gold
  • Metals - Lead
  • Metals - Magnesium
  • Metals - Nickel
  • Metals - Palladium
  • Metals - Silver
  • Metals - Tin
  • Metals - Tungsten
  • Metals - Zinc
  • Metals -Alloy Steel
  • Microplastics
  • Milk and Dairy
  • Mineral Oils
  • Mushrooms and Fungi
  • Nootropics
  • Nutritional Bars
  • Nuts and Seeds
  • Oral Care Products
  • Organic Chemicals
  • Organic Food
  • Packaging - Bottles
  • Packaging - Bulk
  • Packaging - Cans
  • Packaging - Cartons
  • Packaging - Child-Resistant
  • Packaging - Closures
  • Packaging - Flexible
  • Packaging - Pouches
  • Packaging - Recycled
  • Packaging - Reuseable
  • Packaging -Corrugated
  • Pet Food
  • Pet Products
  • Petcare Products
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Pharmaceutical - Pediatric
  • Pharmaceutical - Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API)
  • Pharmaceutical - Compounding
  • Pharmaceutical - Over the Counter (OTC)
  • Pharmaceutical - Small Molecules
  • Pharmaceutical - Sterile
  • Pharmaceutical Excipients
  • Pharmaceuticals - Large Molecules
  • Phytochemicals
  • Phytohormones
  • Phytoremediation
  • Phytotoxins
  • Pigments
  • Plant Seeds
  • Plant-Based Food
  • Plant-Based Milks
  • Plant-Based Proteins
  • Potable Water
  • Preservatives
  • Protein Powders
  • Proteins and Peptides
  • Pyrotechnics and Fireworks
  • Residual Oils
  • Rices
  • Salts
  • Saltwater
  • Sanitizers
  • Sediment
  • Seeds and Seedlings
  • Sludge
  • Solvents
  • Specialty Chemicals
  • Steriods
  • Succulents
  • Sugar-Free Food
  • Sugars and Sweetners
  • Syrups
  • Thickeners and Thickening Agents
  • Tobacco Products
  • Toxic Substances
  • Vape, e-Liquid and e-Cigarette
  • Vegan and Vegetarian Food
  • Vegetable Oils
  • Vitamins and Minerals
  • Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)
  • Wastewater
  • Water
  • Water Systems
  • Wine, Beer, and Liquor
  • Yeasts and Mold

Testing Types

  • Absorbance
  • Absorption
  • Acetic Acid Bacteria
  • Acetobacter
  • Acetone
  • Acetonitrile
  • Acid Digestion of Solid Waste
  • Acid Solubles
  • Aflatoxins
  • Agrifood
  • Alcohol
  • Alcohol Content
  • Alcohol Content by Volume (ABV)
  • Alcoholic Content
  • Alcohols
  • Aldehydes
  • Alkalinity or Acidity
  • Allergens
  • Aluminum
  • Amino Acid Analysis
  • Amino Acids Profiles
  • Ammonia
  • Ammonia Nitrogen
  • Anabolic Steroid
  • Anabolics
  • Anti-Bacterial
  • Anti-Microbial Properties
  • Antibiotic Residues
  • Antifungal Effects
  • Antimicrobial Effectiveness Test (AET)
  • Antimicrobial Efficiacy
  • Aromatic Hydrocarbon Profile
  • Aromatic Hydrocarbons (BTEX)
  • Arsenic
  • Asbestos
  • Ascorbic Acid
  • Aspartic Acid
  • Aspergillus
  • Assay Determination
  • Assay Development
  • Assay Development
  • Assay Specificity
  • Azo Colorants
  • Azo dyes
  • Bioassay
  • Biological Forensics
  • Biological Oxygen Demand
  • botanical
  • Brix
  • BTEX
  • Caffeine
  • Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)
  • CBD
  • Chemiacal Residues
  • Chemical Contaminants
  • Chloride
  • chlorine
  • Chloroform
  • Chromatography
  • Chromium
  • cleaning efficacy
  • Clostridium botulinum
  • Clostridium perfringens
  • Coliform Bacteria
  • Coliform Screen
  • Coliforms, Total
  • Colormetric
  • Compendial Methods
  • Conductivity
  • Crude Fat
  • Crude Fiber
  • Cyanide
  • Dew Point
  • Dissolution
  • Dissolved Oxygen (DO)
  • ELISA
  • ELISA GMO
  • Environmental Assessments
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Enzyme Activity
  • Escherichia coli
  • Ethane
  • Ethanol
  • Fats
  • Fats - Total Fat (Saturated, Polyunsaturated, Monounsaturated, Trans Fat)
  • Fats, Omega Fatty Acids
  • Fatty Acid
  • Fatty Acid Profiles
  • Fatty Acids
  • FCC
  • Food Accelearated Aging Stability Studies
  • Food Contamination
  • Food Dyes
  • Food Fats
  • Food Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS
  • Food Listeria Monocytogenes
  • Food Lycopene
  • Food Mercury Content
  • Food Metabolic Studies
  • Food Microbial
  • Food Microbial Aerobic Plate Count
  • Food Microbial Anaerobic Plate Count
  • Food Microbial Bacillus Cereus
  • Food Microbial Challenge
  • Food Microbial Culture Identification
  • Food Microbial Fecal Coliforms
  • Food Microbial Heat Resistant Mold
  • Food Microbial Lactic Acid Bacteria
  • Food Microbial Lactobacillus
  • Food Microbial Pathogen Screening
  • Food Microbial Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
  • Food Microbial Salmonella
  • Food Microbial Shigella
  • Food Microbial Staphylococcus Aureus
  • Food Microbiology
  • Food Minerals and Heavy Metals
  • Food Moisture
  • Food Net Weight of Product
  • Food Nitrogen
  • Food Nutritional Facts Labeling
  • Food Off-flavors
  • Food Off-odors
  • Food Organic Acid Profile
  • Food Packaging Baseweight
  • Food Packaging Extractables
  • Food Packaging Leachables
  • Food Pesticides Residue
  • Food Preservative Efficacy
  • Food Safety / HAACP
  • Food Source
  • Food Sulfites
  • Food Thermal Death Time (TDT)
  • Food Thermal Modeling Studies
  • Food Total Coliforms
  • Food Total Dietary Fat
  • Food Toxin
  • Food Turbidity
  • Food Vitamins
  • Food Water Activity
  • Food Yeast and Mold
  • Foodborne Pathogens
  • Forensic Chemistry
  • Fructose
  • Gas Chromatography/Flame Ionization Detection (GC/FID)
  • Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS)
  • Grain Size
  • GRAS Food Additive
  • Heterotrophic Plate Count
  • High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
  • High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Fingerprinting
  • Impurities
  • Impurity
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP)
  • inductively coupled plasma - optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES)
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy with Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
  • Industrial Hygiene
  • Ion Chromatography
  • Iron Bacteria
  • Kerosene
  • Lead
  • Lead Analysis of Wicks and Coating
  • Legionella
  • Loss on Drying (under Vacuum)
  • Loss on Ignition
  • Melting Point
  • Melting Temperature
  • Mercury
  • Mercury content
  • Microbial Contamination
  • Microbial Counts
  • Microbial Total Viable Count
  • Microbial Toxins
  • Moisture Analysis
  • Non-Routine Analytical
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Organoleptic
  • Pesticide Contaminants
  • Pesticide Residuals
  • Pesticide Residues
  • Pesticides
  • pH
  • pH value
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction PCR
  • Potassium
  • Potassium (total)
  • Potency Verification
  • Quality Control
  • Refractive Index
  • Refrative Index
  • Sodium Chloride
  • Specific Gravity
  • Spoilage Investigations
  • Spoilage Organisms
  • Total Coliforms
  • Total Combined Yeasts and Molds Count (TYMC)
  • Total Dietary Fiber
  • Total Dissolved Solids (TSD)
  • Total dissolved/suspended solids (TDS/SS)
  • Total Milk Solids
  • Total Moisture
  • Total Nitrogen (Combustion)
  • Total Nitrogen (N)
  • Trace Metals - parts per billion (ppb) detection level
  • Trace Metals - parts per million (ppm) detection
  • Trace Metals - parts per trillion (ppt) detection level
  • Trace Metals Content
  • trace Mineral
  • Trace Minerals
  • USDA
  • Vibrio
  • Viscosity
  • Vitamin
  • Vitamins and Minerals
  • Waste Analysis
  • Water Activity
  • Water Density
  • Yeast and Mold

Publications

Vanguard Laboratory has not posted any publications.

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