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Overview
Q Laboratories has provided analytical chemistry and microbiology laboratory services to companies around the world since 1966. Registered with the FDA for pharmaceutical testing (Reg.# 1527260), cGMP/GLP Compliant and ISO/IEC 17025 Accredited, Q Laboratories is experienced in analyzing foods, food ingredients, pharmaceuticals, functional foods, OTCs, cosmetics, health and beauty products, nutraceuticals and raw materials. Microbiology capabilities include: Shelf Life Studies, Pathogen Detection, Indicator Organism Enumeration, Challenge Studies, Microbial Identification, Time-Kill Studies, Antimicrobial Efficacy Testing and Sanitizer and Disinfectant Efficacy Studies. Analytical chemistry services include: Raw Material Qualification, Purified Water Testing, Active Ingredient Monitoring, Method Development and Validation, Stability Testing and Nutritional Analysis. An independent laboratory, combining state-of-the-art technology with personal service and attention, Q Laboratories, Inc. can provide services to meet all testing and quality assurance needs. For over 50 years, Q Laboratories, Inc. has maintained excellence in science as well as customer satisfaction creating a level of confidence and trust among clients that is unparalleled.
Standards & Methodologies
FDA/BAM, USDA/MLG, AOAC Official Methods of Analysis, ISO, USP/NF, EP, AOCS, ASTM, Food Chemicals Codex (FCC), EPA Methods; Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater; Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products; Compendium of Methods for the Microbiological Examination of Foods
Qualifications, Certifications, Accreditations & Licenses
ISO/IEC 17025 Accredited, FDA Registered (Reg. #1527260), AOAC International Research Institute Recommended Laboratory, CDC ELITE Certified for Legionella Analysis in Water, MicroVal Expert Laboratory, AFNOR Expert Laboratory, GMP/GLP Compliant, EPA/DDGW Certified for Potable Water Microbiological Testing
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Industries Served
- Adhesives, Glues, and Tapes
- Advanced Technology
- Agriculture
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Anti-Microbials
- Baked Goods
- Beverages
- Biopharmaceuticals
- Biotechnology
- Botanicals and Herbals
- Candy and Confectionaries
- Chemicals
- Chocolate, Cocoa, and Cacao
- Cleaning Products
- Coffee and Tea
- Consumer Products
- Cosmetics
- Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals
- Disinfectants
- Eggs and Egg Products
- Fats, Oil, and Oilseeds
- Fish and Seafood
- Food Additives
- Food and Beverage
- Food Contact Surfaces
- Food Supplements
- Fruits and Vegetables
- Functional Food
- Green and Organic Products
- Haircare
- Herbs and Spices
- Industrial Water
- Meats and Poultry
- Medical Devices
- Medicinals and Botanicals
- Microbes and Microorganisms
- Milk and Dairy
- Natural Products
- Personal Care Products
- Pet Food
- Pet Products
- Pharmaceutical
- Prebiotics and Probiotics
- Restaurants
- Wine, Beer, and Liquor
Testing Types
- Acid Value
- Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient API
- Aflatoxins
- Alcohol Content by Volume (ABV)
- Allergen
- Anaerobic Plate Count
- Analytical
- Analytical Chemistry
- Anti-Bacterial
- Antimicrobial Effectiveness Test (AET)
- Automated Colony Forming Unit (CFU) Assays
- Bacteria
- Bacterial Kill Study
- Bacterial Retention of Membrane Filters
- Bioburden
- Biomass
- Boiling Point
- Brookfield Viscosity
- Caffeine
- Calories
- Campylobacter
- Carbohydrates
- Challenge
- Chemical Residues
- Chromatography
- Chromium
- Coliform Screen
- Coliforms, Total
- Colony Formation Assay
- Colony Plating
- Colormetric
- Conductivity
- Cronobacter
- Decontamination Effectiveness
- Dietary
- Dissolution
- Efficacy
- Elemental Analysis
- ELISA
- Environmental Microbiology
- Environmental Monitoring
- Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME)
- Fatty Acids
- Fecal Coliform
- flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (FLAA)
- Food Allergens
- Food Contact Surfaces
- Food Safety / HAACP
- Foodborne Pathogens
- Freeze/Thaw Resistance
- Fructose
- FTIR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
- Glucose
- Gluten
- Heavy Metals
- Hepatitis
- Heterotrophic Plate Count
- HPLC
- Hydroxyl Value
- Identification
- Immunoassays
- inductively coupled plasma - optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES)
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy with Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Insoluble Impurities
- Iron
- Iron Bacteria
- Legionella
- Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
- Loss on Drying (under Vacuum)
- Loss on Ignition
- MALDI-TOF
- Melting Point
- Method Development
- Method Validation
- Microanalysis
- Microbial Contamination
- Microbial Enumeration Test (MET)
- Microbial Identification
- Mineral Analysis
- MINIMUM BACTERICIDAL CONCENTRATION (MBC)
- MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION (MIC)
- Moisture
- Molecular Biology
- MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)
- Mycobacteria
- Mycoplasma
- Nutritional
- Organic Chemistry
- Particle Analysis
- Particle Size
- pH
- Plating Evaluations
- Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
- Predictive Microbiology
- Preservative Analysis
- Preservative Challenge
- Product Safety
- Proximate Analysis (Moisture, Ash, Volatile Matter, and Fixed Carbon)
- Purity
- Quality Control
- Rancidity
- Rapid Swabbing
- Raw Material
- Readily Oxidizable Substances
- real time stability studies
- Refractive Index
- Research and Development (R&D)
- Residue on Evaporation
- Residue on Ignition
- Rotational Rheometry
- Safety
- Salmonella
- Saponification value
- Scoville Heat Units (SHU)
- Selenium
- Shigella
- Sieve Analysis
- Solubility
- Solvent Purity
- Soxhlet Extraction
- Specific Gravity
- Spectrometry
- Spectrophotometry
- Spoilage Investigations
- Spore strip (Biological Indicators) Enumeration
- Stability
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Sucrose
- Sugars
- Sulfate reducing bacteria
- Suspended Solids
- Thermal Conductivity
- Total Aerobic Microbial Count (TAMC)
- Total Organic Carbons (TOC)
- Total Oxygen Demand
- Total Viable Count
- Trace Analysis
- Turbidity
- Ultraviolet (UV) Transmission
- Unsaponifiable Matter
- Uranium
- UV/Vis
- Viscosity
- Vitamin
- Water Activity
- Weight Variation
- Yeast
Publications
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